The Boy in the Bubble 0
After discussing the theory that we are living in some sort of simulation, Jonathan Wolf concedes that most of us are not, but some of us, most notably Elon Musk. Here’s big of his article:
Extremely rich people are often susceptible to the same affliction. We do not live in a pure meritocracy. Some unmeritorious people still get lucky, some very meritorious people get unlucky, and almost everyone is very, very good at certain things while simultaneously being terrible at others. For the extremely wealthy, though, it’s easy to build walls around themselves inside of which they know more about everything than everyone else.
In related news, Chris Williams takes a slightly less charitable view:
This man goes out of the way daily to prove that meritocracy is bunk.
Follow the links to see each writer’s reasoning.