Yes. Socialization is critical, but we don’t have good experiments on how far I can go. One is what happens to young people from poor families that go to fancy private schools. It certainly has an impact on them, but the schools themselves are kind of bivalient around good values and values of exploitation. I think of the world’s reaction to the death of Princess Diana, which shows that people have been socialized to appreciate her in ways that we’re not obvious I wish we knew more about the limits of socialization.
Whether there are good elites depend on generational ability to nurture values that are sustainable rather than short term greed that is predatory.
Yes. Socialization is critical, but we don’t have good experiments on how far I can go. One is what happens to young people from poor families that go to fancy private schools. It certainly has an impact on them, but the schools themselves are kind of bivalient around good values and values of exploitation. I think of the world’s reaction to the death of Princess Diana, which shows that people have been socialized to appreciate her in ways that we’re not obvious I wish we knew more about the limits of socialization.