Bryan Caplan Quote

Through the lens of the Jock/Nerd Theory of History, the welfare state doesn't look like a serious effort to "equalize outcomes." It looks more like a serious effort to block the "revenge of the nerds"—to keep them from using their financial success to unseat the jocks on every dimension of social status.

Redistribution: Blocking the Revenge of the Nerds? (June 21, 2007)