Paul Graham is pushing back on AOC's claim that billionaires can't legitimately earn their wealth, drawing on two decades of data from evaluating thousands of founders at Y Combinator. Meanwhile, Sacramento is moving to gut Prop 209's K-12 protections through ACA-7, which would allow race-based preferences in gifted programs — a direct challenge to a voter mandate that was reaffirmed as recently as 2020. Together, these fights reflect a deepening battle over whether merit and individual achievement still have a place in California's public institutions.
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Film students can't finish movies. Professors curve the grades anyway. And states that 'lowered standards to be kind' betrayed their most vulnerable students.
Democrats chase equity theater while Republicans settle for culture war dunks. Here's the evidence-based path both ignore.
A startup founder who actually delivers results vs. Sacramento's endless theater. California finally has a real choice.
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