Maybe you care and maybe you don’t.
I’m very interested in the question.
The scintillating point in the first half hour is that We Can’t Make It Here Anymore.
It starts in school, where we graduate a shrinking number of engineers relative to the emerging world.
Then those engineers are incentivized to make apps for phones instead of anything real or consequential.
They go to work for companies that care about nothing but profit, and those companies set up the rules so that it’s illegal to not-profit for a higher cause, like back during the good war.
They vote for whatever buffoon promises to keep this gravy train running for them all, regardless of the consequences.
They become influencers who care passionately about things like abortion and who can use which bathroom.
The world moves on behind them and then past them.
We’re living it right here now today.
I don’t hate the Chinese immigrant who took my job.
No, I hate the man who sent my job away, all lily white and squeaky clean.
Oh no, his kids won’t bleed in the war that inevitably crashes the hegemony.
They say some people just want to watch the world burn.
Some days, these days, I can see where they’re coming from; where they’re going to.