Death By Expertise: The Decadence of Economists and Medical Doctors

And the capitalist sidelining of the arts

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We rely on experts to convey the wisdom stored by civilizational progress. After so many centuries of accumulated history and knowledge, no one can master it all, so the population of a developed society divides into experts and the lesser-trained folks, into the specialists on the…