@Oilfield_Rando Accurate. Unfortunately, the NGO network is quite powerful, so there is no shortage of funding for subversive causes. Exposing the NGO industry for what it truly is is one of the most important and relevant challenges of our time.
@MostlyMonkey Great advice! and the longer you stay in prestige seeking optionality maximizing roles the lower your optionality becomes to do anything else because you are too expensive and low exp to hire as a head of a function and you wont chose anything less.
Not really a comment on this post in particular - but a piece of general advice to younger people is: being long optionality, in investing or in life, is incredibly costly over time. Consulting is one of those "extend optionality" careers.
“UBI” is obviously nowhere near the panacea many of you seem to think it is. The median left-leaning Westerner isn’t angry at Elon Musk because he can buy a million times more groceries than them. They aren’t upset with Palantir because Peter Thiel can afford to eat a thousand burgers to their one. This whole thing is in large part post-material. It’s the hierarchy & subordination they’re uncomfortable with. They feel their dignity is being trampled and their autonomy progressively diminished – rightly or wrongly they feel politically disenfranchised and stripped of a say over the future. Offering a guaranteed food budget and a pod to spend the night in return for further disempowerment is incredibly tone-deaf and should be expected to provoke more, not less, outrage.
@KelleyKga There is a middle way tho. Memorization without intuition/understanding does not generalize. Students should learn the mechanics of numbers, which facilitates the memorization of facts. Memorizing facts but not knowing how to do 11x12 is not effective.