All either party needs to do is become the reasonably sane party.
-Jettison wokeness and DEI
-Stop being antivax
-Be pro abortion
-Fix healthcare (for real)
-Solve the problem of homelessness and drug addiction (bring back insane asylums, put drug addicts in rehab or jail, take back our streets, stop the cartels and chinese manufacturers at the source)
-Stop crime (longer sentences, laws are enforced and enforced equally)
-Stop immigration of low human-capital immigrants
-Put a stop to our incredibly litigious culture (put caps on # of lawyers)
-Ensure reasonable monetary policy
-Ensure reasonable housing policy (if crime is controlled we can live in cities again and support mixed zoning that allows for decreased cost of living in major cities and more livable cities)
Huge amounts of low hanging fruit that would vastly improve the standard of living for the average person. We need to tell the craziest 10% of the population on either side to go to hell, and if they don't like it, put them in jail, because the normies deserve a society that functions. Aren't people tired of being held hostage by all of these fools?
Is this person rich and successful solely or in large part just from their investments?
Where's the proof?
Very few people are billionaires from investing.
If Nassim Nicholas Taleb is such a great investor, where is his hedge fund? He's a writer who sells compelling books, nothing more!
As Paul Graham states, billionaires build.
Warren Buffett is the exception that proves the rule, and even he says "Just toss your money into an index fund."
If the richest (and therefore wisest) investor in the world is humble enough to admit that it's a (nearly) impossible game to win at, then who is Jim Cramer?
I see a few major problems in the pursuit of modern scientific inquiry.
- Bureaucratization. The modern university model is basically the DMV. It functions to sustain the lifestyle of the administrators in charge and to prevent them from losing power, money, status. And no one enjoys it, not the employees, not the customers, etc. and yet who can change it for the better? It can and does only get worse, more bureaucratic, more soul sucking. Ask the post-docs.
- Feminization of academia and science. This is related to the bureaucratization. Process, safety, paperwork, meetings and community consensus are paramount. All becomes politics. Everyone must agree. Only small questions can be answered. You need permission for everything. Anything truly novel is considered a threat to the scientific community. Modern day "scientism" and other beliefs are the replacement to christianity in the west, and women are more religious (look it up), and academe is the modern day church. All dissent or inquiry is squashed.
- Denial of Great Man Theory. Great men invented modernity, and of course our modern industrial state requires many layers of managers due to the huge complexity, so sizes of labs, colleges, corporations, assembly lines, supply chains have exploded, and no one person can manage it all in their mind.
The false belief is thus: modern industrial society requires the managerial class to function, therefore the managerial class invented it, and it requires the managerial class to progress. Therefore great man theory, or the idea of the innovative genius, is supposedly debunked.
And yet you see nearly all major advances come from tech bros like Elon Musk et al who are trailblazers, ignore complaints of the bureacracy, etc.
- Could the university system have produced facebook, spacex, tesla, microsoft, apple? You can go on and on.
Please don't interpret this as an attack on women or femininity. Society requires everyone for it to function properly, and everyone has a positive contribution to make, but we have to be able to iterate and change when we realize certain modes of endeavor simply do.not.work.