What the article fails to differentiate is that knowledge is not enough, and is not the decisive factor in opening doors to the world of the elite.
A person from an ivy league and no-name college can get the same knowledge but only the stamp of approval from the ivy league school opens the opportunities to spectacular success and wealth. The other person may be just as knowledgeable and competent but will max out at upper middle class.
The stamp is what counts.
Modern "let me google that for you"
That's art for you. Music, fine art etc I'd guess is even more lopsided.
And this matters because?
Since before we were homo sapiens distinct from our evolutionary cousins. Probably before our ancestors were recognizable as mammals, or even terrestrial.
Obviously. German national socialism is dead and Islamism is alive.
What's crazy is letting thieves openly ransack stores.
What happens when pandemic 2 requires mask mandates?
Cyberpunk 2077
Iron Harvest
No, we have a barely functioning centralized government structure. Iran does not because Israel and US killed them all. Nobody can speak for the whole country and control the IRGC.
There is no good argument against capitalism. I agree there should be some guardrails and regulation, but it's a matter of how much.
At the core it is capitalism though, and it's the supeeior ecinomic model to anything else.