An important read.

tl;dr: You want Idiocracy? This is how you get Idiocracy.

“Americans living today are the inheritors of systems that created the highest standard of living in human history. Rather than protecting the competency that made those systems possible, the modern preference for diversity has attenuated meritocratic evaluation at all levels of American society. Given the damage already done to competence and morale combined with the natural exodus of baby boomers with decades worth of tacit knowledge, the biggest challenge of the coming decades might simply be maintaining the systems we have today.”

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/complex-systems-wont-survive-the

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Longer, but worth the time:

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Difficult to have the time to gain competency when running the fiat hamster wheel. Capitol accumulation via bitcoin will give the world renewed intelligence and growth. Very bullish.

Great read. Thanks for sharing. I watch this happen more and more every year where I work. The Romans had lots of technologies that went away for centuries. I fear we are trending toward the same if we don’t snap back to meritocratic standards.

The “meritocratic standard”—there’s a book.