I_DRINK_KOOLAID

Just by the tone of this response I can infer that you did not

People with healthy levels of arrogance and self-confidence don't talk in such a poised manner pivoting against other demographics when questioned about how they fare at the micro level.

Tl;dr

Even if you are #1 of 8,000,000,000 , you are still just 1 in 8,000,000,000

To be perfectly fair I think many of the leaders cited in this piece know perfectly well that they are easily replaced.

Like, take the most traumatic instances such as JFK or Lincoln being shot. Yes there were a couple of days of sorrow (or better yet fake sorrow) but after a couple of days everybody moved on.

Pyramids were supposed to be monuments to the Pharoahs, but after a while the fame of structure managed to surpass the fame of the person buried underneath.

When there are so many humans the marginal value of any human plummets to record lows.

Take Jesus, he's unrivaled at #1, but if we are being honest what's really the % of waking hours that humanity as a whole spends thinking about him during a fiscal year?

It gets diluted into almost insignificant levels of attention.

> Countries like Ethiopia are catching up from being way behind using imported technology

And who do you think is doing all the importing? A young guy in his 20s , who is working 14 hours per day for his family import-export company and helping his dad cooking the books to convince the bank to loan them money to get access to such foreign technology.

That is to me both a survivor and a risk taker, not an American kid getting out of college today.

> You're flat out wrong about young people and their willingness to take risks

Taking risks entails being open to novel experiences and also believing you are invincible and the world is yours for the taking . So let me ask you:

Do you smoke? Do you drink? Do you gamble? How many drugs have you tried? Did you violate lockdowns to go partying? When was the last time you stole another man's girlfriend? When was the last time you had sex with another man's girlfriend? When was the last time you managed to outcompete other men in a club and brought a girl home leaving them with nothing?

I am asking because I did all that (well except escaping lockdowns), back when colleges were still vibrant.

Risk taking is correlated with all the above. It takes arrogance to start or takeover a company, you have to fight and push the barriers, you don't get to have selective arrogance which only applies to one realm of life.

> I'm telling you so, as a fact, not an opinion.

Facts are that if you look at places that are experiencing growth at 9% or 10% YoY in real terms, meaning after adjusting for inflation, they are all places which are pretty socially volatile and have a very fast turnover of humans.

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, Vietnam, Philippines, Honduras...

In the US , the hotspots for unpredictability , high social volatility and fast turnover due to dropouts and new arrivals were colleges.

Those kept propelling US growth after such phenomenons had long subdued in the American society at large.

Colleges just aren't as vibrant anymore, so as the last bastion of vibrant culture fell, so did US growth.

And besides, you don't have to be watching FNC to see how the US transitioned from being a country of go-getters to being afraid of losing all the health and wealth accumulated up to now due to the efforts of the aforementioned go-getters.

This makes me think about the importance of supporting a sports team.

If your team goes on the road against the 1st team in the division, you can contemplate both the idea of following the team on the road and make your support be felt until you don't have any voice left AND prognosticating a loss , maybe even making money by betting against your team to recoup the cost of the trip.

Both ideas can coexist in your brain at the same time.

Like people who donated millions to Hillary super-PAC , but kept channels open with the Trump campaign and when he won they were first in line to meet him at Trump Tower.

> We don't have "safe spaces in colleges". I graduated from college recently and never witnessed any such thing. How long has it been since you've set foot on a college campus?

Just the fact that there are no brawls, no animosity or electricity in the air means that the whole campus is a safe space. Ever since the stone age putting a bunch of young people together in an enclosed space meant huge social volatility and an energetic exchange of ideas. That just doesn't happen anymore.

> who are dealing with real problems like sky high costs of education, health care, and housing, and who don't deserve this kind of disrespect. Young people are survivors.

A median GenZ will live well into their 90s...honestly that's a huge problem, human brains are made to think about tomorrow, next week at maximum, because they developed during a time when you could die at a moment's notice. When you stop thinking about tomorrow and you project yourself 10 or 20 or even 50 years into the future, that's when crazy things start happening such as you saying that young people are survivors.

There is so much abundance, more than ever, that people don't even value it.

Wuhan had its first cases on Dec-17th , on Jan-14th the sequence was out and shipped across the globe.

If you think that delay is bad wait and see if a pandemic develops in Yemen or in Sub-Saharan Africa...those countries would need 8-9 months to notice an outbreak not to mention sequencing.

We have an example with HIV. It made the leap somewhere in Africa between 1945 and 1952. The world noticed it when it arrived to developed countries in the 1980s...

Hatred against China is cheap talk, when it's time to discuss the quality of life haircut that a complete decoupling would cause all of a sudden each and every person (be it a professor, a dude at the bar or anybody else) is only looking for an off-ramp to get off the conversation and blame Davos/Schwab/the illuminati. This is true in NYC as well as Shanghai

Textbook case of "Everybody who is not me is evil" fallacy

Yesterday absolute evil was represented by short sellers and Big Oil, nowadays it's BlackRock and Vanguard.

Saudis were great friends when prince M(Bonesaw)S expressed the intention of maybe taking Tesla private, then they were evil when they backpedaled, ironically they became good friends again when they decided to roll over their stake in Twitter.

People capitalizing on the goldfish memory of the avg. financial analyst and retail investor.

But it will end at some point. Problem is when these 2 fraudolent clowns go down, 4 new ones will emerge to take their place.

It's the gilded age of fraud out there.

> The fact that your source for this is April 2020 makes me conclude you are trolling

Fed has been doing QE ever since 2008 if you haven't noticed, and interest rates trailed inflation ever since

Mostly proximity to eastern europe compared to NYC.