My wife thought I had lost my mind when she heard me cheering all by myself and came running in to make sure I was OK. I was cheering because I had just heard that the spending bill didn’t get pushed through. I was cheering because every year, for as long as I can remember, I wasn’t screaming at the TV because that annual cash cow legislation wasn’t walked over to greener pastures as usual, but instead it took an unexpected detour to the slaughter house. Now, under the sanitizing light of day, I will be riveted to X to follow who is voting which way and why. I can only hope this is a new world of transparency. I don’t mind loosing a good fight if it’s a open and level playing field. At least I know the outcome isn’t predetermined and I just have to try harder the next time around.
Are we anticipating a society where privilege no longer rules the roost? Let's start with education in the home. Next, let's look at the schools available to various sectors of society! Does a poor, immigrant or refugee child have access to the the same private school that a wealthy child might have? And... Do we all have equal opportunities to attend the universities that might allow us to become part of that precious group that Musk would like to put at the top of the list for employment?
Are we anticipating a society where privilege no longer rules the roost? Let's start with education in the home. Next, let's look at the schools available to various sectors of society! Does a poor, immigrant or refugee child have access to the the same private school that a wealthy child might have? And... Do we all have equal opportunities to attend the universities that might allow us to become part of that precious group that Musk would like to put at the top of the list for employment?
@@sheilareid766 I take it that you were born here. I suspect this because those comments do not cross the mind of someone who is cut from a struggling immigrant family. My family came here with nothing but the opportunities this country had to offer for those willing to make the effort to seize them. Our education in this country began by learning English by reading comic books (loaned to us by our church) around the kitchen table after dinner every night. Why comic books? The pictures conveyed the meaning of the words. We never took a handout or expected anything that we did not earn. In fact, back in the early 70’s I lost my factory job and the government was going to send me to school to learn a new trade - my father forbid me from taking the handout, so I took out a student loan and paid for the trade school myself. My work ethic was established when I was just 11, I began to become aware that my wardrobe was severely out of date (I wore hand me downs from my 2 older brothers which were already hand me downs when they wore them). If I wanted to improve my situation, I was expected to earn my own money to do it. When I wasn’t in school, I was earning $8 for a 10 hour day on a fishing boat and made additional money selling fish on the dock that had no commercial value. After 3 years, I had saved enough money to buy a clam boat and began making real money and beside the roof over my head, I became self-sufficient and was no longer a burden to my family’s finances. I was taught from a very young age that if you wanted something, you had to work your butt off to attain it. I eventually went to the trade school to learn computer programming. That was the only schooling I had after 12th grade - whatever I needed beyond that was self taught and I managed to turn all that hard work into a very successful 43 year career in a very large aerospace company. So, I have to apologize for not understanding your point of view - my upbringing simply did not allow self pity. I now live a comfortable retirement and spend my time re-enforcing the work ethics of my parents on my 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren. I would like to relay a message that my father drummed into me due to his own experiences and reasons for coming here to begin with. “Never allow the government to control your education, ability to earn a living, or your health. You loose all your freedoms the minute you do. Once lost, it is almost impossible to get them back.” Being born wealthy does not ensure a good outcome. There are many wealthy, but clueless kids pursuing nonsense degrees in very prestigious schools that will never be able to survive on their own. I would rather learn a skill set that give me tools to blaze my own path without relying on anyone else. Wishing you and yours a very Happy Holiday Season and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year. I am feeling a bit hopeful. 🙂🙂🙂
@sheilareid766 you are assuming formal higher education is the only path to success or money. Everything after that assumption doesn't matter because it's based off a false assumption.
This whole discussion has given me an immense sense of hope that we, as a country, are finally going down the right path for a brighter future for our amazing country. It'll be a tough fight but we'll worth the fight. The country will finally start to witness what a logical society will look like.
My parents brought us to the USA (legally - it was a difficult journey). We arrived on the Neptunia in the port of New York in 1953 and that was only the start of a long challenging journey up the food chain. However, my parents always stressed to us that this is the greatest country in the world with boundless opportunity. Seven decades later, I have continued that mantra with my own children and, now, with my 6 grandchildren. The one thing that always shocked my parents was that people born here often miss the opportunities and the fact that they were so fortunate to have them laid at their feet just because they were lucky enough to have been born here. People who scoff at this notion should realize that there are countless foreigners who would gladly give anything to trade places with them. I’m so sorry my father recognized his cherished adopted homeland was crumbling in his final years. He was very concerned what was to become of our family in the eroding environment. It gives me some comfort to imagine how happy he would be today witnessing the shifting tide that can right the ship that was driven so far off course. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@retiredbitjuggler3471 simply beautiful! To say nothing of millions who bought with their blood all that we 300 million + take for granted … how close we came to losing it … BUT for a band of modern patriots armed with some - near-forgotten - integrity, a thimble of faith, and God’s grace … America will shine again Similar story here: parents escaped world horrors in ‘56, learned English, started business, imported me 10 years later; cured me of communism, atheism, & apathetic mediocrity (at best) … grand & great grand children …
Beautiful history. However, I cannot even conceive how the elected president is going to right the ship, when it is so obvious that, if he could, he would catch all the remaining treasures in the ship and let it sink. He will try. Let's hope he does not succeed.
@ Well, it doesn’t surprise me that you missed the whole point. It has nothing to do with Trump or his assembled court. It has everything to do with the majority in this country finally making their voices heard and giving our broken government a mandate to return to what we consider the norm and away from the out of control far left. If you study history, the most brutal regimes first divided their populous across various types (race, religion, culture, …) and then pitting them against each other to weaken them before they went in for the kill (total and inescapable control). My parents lived through that and made sure we understood and recognized it so we wouldn’t fall into that trap. I hope this helps you recognize what was happening and maybe help you to venture outside of your sphere and take in a bigger picture. I don’t wish to offend you, but I would like to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a prosperous and healthy New Year. Best Wishes!
Interesting that the MLK philosophy is now the "far-right". Judging people based on character, not skin color is what defines a merit based system. Amazing how the times have changed. I think the right needs to start flexing MLK.
I’m in biz for myself since 1996 because when I went out to mow a lawn, after getting kicked out of X-Ray tech training, trying to get $14.00 / hour back then, (partly for being a conservative Christian), I found that when folks saw me break a sweat and WORK HARD, they asked me to do ALL SORTS OF THINGS, for $35.00/ hr, you guys. Go, and do likewise. The Lord will gradually widen the road ahead of you. Don’t take the ride road that gets narrow, by ignoring God and following the lemmings who will fall off the cliff. Yeah, and I’m up to 60.00 / hr now.
"The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not much on their personality, it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart." -Elon Musk
I have a cousin who worked for a Texas congressman from the panhandle for many years, moved to the FDA, then FEMA, and is now retired. When Trump was elected the first time, I told him back in 2016, maybe we will finally get our Federal budget in order. He told me then, it will NEVER EVER happen because the way you have to vote for terrible things to get the small thing you want. He was responsible for writing legislation when he worked for the congressman. Let's hope Viveck becomes speaker and we change the way things are done voting one item at a time, or at least an 8 page limit with congressman's names next to the things they want. That would be a game changer. Elon needs to stay at Tesla. I would like to retire in the next 2-3 years.
We need this in the medical field. There are so many government regulations, etc that make healthcare incredibly complicated/inefficient. It’s ripe for disruption.
Medical might need this more than any other field. Unfortunately, in order to disrupt an industry we need people who understand that industry - and medical is also the field which people who are not part of it are least likely to understand. Which is to say, we need people from within the medical field to push the sort of disruptions we need to fix things, and if there are such people they have unfortunately not come to prominence yet, and therefore have not come to the attention of those who can fund and support them in their efforts. _Possibly_ RFK Jr. can change that, as he is at least a rallying point for such people now.
@ I respectfully disagree. Most of the disfunction in healthcare isn’t the care itself. We almost always know exactly what is wrong with people and how to fix whatever problem it is they have. The problem is getting access to the care you need in a timely manner. There are an absurd number of hoops to jump through to get what you need. Someone I know was recently told they would have to wait two weeks for someone to call them to schedule an appointment, and that appointment would be some 2-3 months in the future. The difficulty part is that in the auto industry, if something gets messed up, someone goes without a car for a few weeks. In healthcare if you mess up, people die, and people rightfully get really angry when people die. It’s an incredibly complex issue, and there’s a lot of discussion to be had about whether it’s healthcare or sick care. If we want to prevent people from getting sick in the first place, that’s a very different issue, basically what RFK is going to work on. That will solve a lot of the healthcare system by just not getting sick in the first place, but it doesn’t solve everything.
what a fabulous discussion thank you Farzad for discussing the future of our country, this is what is on the minds of the people that have been silenced by political games. Thank you Farzad Thank you DOGE!!
43:30 There's no good reason to not be using a Git-like approach to handling bills. Every piece of legislation become a repo, all proposals are tracked and who made the change. Votes on whether the bill is passed or not is clearly visible. Bills are just pull requests. This would allow for many small changes to be passed quickly. It would also give good reason for lawmakers to be in the office (or at least working remotely).
From here in Australia 🇦🇺. Trump wants to increase spending to make him look like Santa, and then you have Elon playing the Christmas Grinch. I don't think this duo wont work well together.
I agree. I'm a woman in a man's world, and I hate that they have to put me over the men. I friggin hate that crap. I want to be treated as an equal. But then again, I do things differently from a man, and that has helped me excel in my field. However, if they hadn't given me a little mercy in the beginning, I probably would not have succeeded.
Excellent Clarence Thomas autobiography tells how he, educated under racial quotas in law school, was expected to be a poor performer, by his employers, with that subtle racism in his past, and he had to perform extremely well to overcome the prejudice that came from that subtle form of “quota racism.”
I'm a firm believer in meritocracy, but with meritocracy comes the possibility of group disparities. If you're going to push meritocracy then you must be willing to defend the existence of group disparities when it comes to employment and educational advancement. Of course the way things are going humans are going to lose out due to merit to AI and robots any way.
My success is all due to me. The fact I’m a white heterosexual male with a Scottish/English heritage - had nothing to do with my success. All folks wielding power in my communities looked like me - I witnessed discrimination in every part of society growing up. I avoided problems because of merit 100%. Whether I got a job based on merit may have been somewhat true - but there were huge hidden advantages. It would be nice if you had a balanced approach to discussing this subject.
Farzad, what's up with this drivel? I'm really disappointed. This guy is a joke. Yes DEI has overshot the mark but this guy wouldn't know meritocracy if it bit him in the arse. Maybe he's just too young to grasp the truth. It was not a meritocracy when Ivy League school admissions were regularly based on legacy. Or when whole swaths of the population were barred from leadership positions including virtually all women and all people of color including Indian and Chinese people. Even with overzealous DEI hiring and promotion society is WAY more meritocratic than it was 20, 30 or 40 years ago. It's not even close. Go back and try to find someone who looks like you on TV from 30 years ago talking about anything serious, You won't find them.
remember this, when you create a class of unworthy workers, you better damn well make sure you look after them or your going to have a revolution. Note, if the people you elected are a bit short in the deck, you really think they have been elected on meritocrecy? Assuming people whose one skill in life is to collect money are good at anything else is insane. Rich people know how to horde money.......things like empathy and restraint....probably not. The rich are again making the rules........
Been going on longer than people think. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame said he was passed over for promotion in the banking industry no less than three times. I applied for a job at post office in Canada many years ago, and clicked the box that agreed to participate in the Employment Equity Program. Which meant I disqualified myself for the job.
For sure. Lot's of people have awaken to reality. Now it's time to set our federal fiscal house in order and tell congress we will not put up with this deficit spending anymore. Live within our means & stop the pork.
Farzad walks into a room wearing his T-shirt, “The robots are coming.” Someone glances at him and says, “Oh, they’re coming, alright... Give it a few years, and they’ll be better at it than us!”
One of the reason that Intel does so poorly is because the DID take the DEI approach 10-15 years ago. They lack the superstars needed to execute so.ething as complex as manufacturing cutting edge semeconductors.
I believe one of the jobs of congress is to pass a budget. There have been few budgets enacted recently. Continuing Resolutions is not a good way to operate the country. Building the interstate highway system could not have been achieved if the budget was a series of 3 month funding resolutions.
A really great discussion and I e learned a lot. I believe in first principles, I’ve studied how Elon employs first principles and I’m attempting to deploy this practice in my work and daily life. I’m disappointed by the lack of first principles being employed in this discussion. From a first principle perspective, racial quotes were employed to address racial discrimination in hiring practices. Meritocracy by itself will not correct discrimination in hiring. Let’s have a first principle discussion on what is needed to ensure that all applicants have a fair, equitable and just opportunity to be hired. This must extend through career promotions at all levels. This would be a very interesting and challenging discussion, Along these lines. I’m a retired college professor with a career in which I was on countless search and screen committees. I watched my faculty colleagues choose white applicants constantly over equally qualified applicants with a different color or cultural background. Please, in the name of first principles, let’s have these discussions too.
3 Bills available, which are merit based. One Subject at a Time Act (see Rand Paul) Read the Bill Act, Write the Bill Act. These are available for decades. It was not that way 30 to 40 years ago, it can be done!
Sometimes I worry that we may create a dystopia.There have been some advances in technology that could help law enforcement agencies, but it could also be abused and violate the rights of people.I think that the majority of people have a vague understanding of the situation, but I don't think that most people are aware at just how far technologies have advanced.
WHY does voting HAVE to entail members of the house or senators travelling to "the House" in this day and age. With modern technology this voting could be done from the members own office all over America. This will show who voted for what and enable multiple bills to be passed through the system more efficiently and cost the tax payers less monies. One could argue that this prevents discussions within party lines but again this can be done through the internet or on cell phones. America is not using modern technology to improve ways of doing business.
The remaining problems are no more difficult than those they have already solved. Tesla has arrived at an architecture and training method that seems to only need scaling of data, compute, and model size. At this point, profitable robotaxi service at mass scale is far more likely than not.
To be fair, anyone in an engineering team always welcomes more females and diversity. Engineering teams are so homogenous and that can get boring. If diversity is a competitive advantage, I don’t see any issues with that.
This dude is literally a Vivek clone. Had I not watched on video I would thought he was Vivek. His tone, cadence, and vocabulary is almost the exact same.
There is also a picture of unfairness, which I experienced: the standardized tests, which everyone hates for some reason or another, either because they don’t reward people with a less intellectual upbringing, etc. told me that I was brilliant: “Iowa basics,” 99%, PSAT, (telling me I was in the top three people in my graduating class of 140) etc: . But when I went out into the workplace and found out that politeness, punctuality, and not being a smart Alec, or abrasive, wee what was REALLY. valued? -It was quite shocking to me and it took years to overcome the feeling that I was “special” -long before the “everyone gets a trophy” era -because of a piece of paper.
I love the idea of Azoria. It is cut from the cloth I was raised under. I will be keeping an eye out for it. I don’t typically invest in ETF funds because I dislike the overemphasis many of them focus on DEI. I have no issues with diversity as long as it is not forced. I witnessed that in my own long career and it may have checked off a box, but the observations were not optimal. My strongest manager in my 43 year career was a woman, but not because of DEI - she kicked butt when it counted (sometimes it was mine).
Also think these guys miss the point that there are always thousands of people who qualify and are “most qualified for the job.” Come on, let’s be real. A lot of software engineers are hired to copy and paste code. In that case, where many candidates are best fit for the job, I don’t think it hurts to hire someone that can help make the team more interesting and bring fresh perspectives because diversity is lacking.
I'd like to affirm a point on diversity in stating my position that the lack of societal support for educating a diverse public into industry progress and innovation has neglectfully left the American population generally unchallenged educationally and thereby unprepared for excellence. Can we fix and evenly distribute the system of education in excellence to bring the diversity of US talent into fruition?!
I fully support a meritocracy environment. I have been blessed with top 10% ability and it serves me well. I also, however, have associates with fewer gifts through no fault of their own and have deep concerns about where they end up. Similarly where do any of us fall when superior A.I. bots are performing ALL the intellectual and physical tasks? These are the important issues to address, both for government and social policy.
If Elon Musk intends to implement a Meritocracy within a Kleptomaniacal Plutocracy then it's a case of an irresistable force meeting an immovavle object and something is going to have to give! Can Elon musk change the system from within? The problem is the material that he has to, 'work with'!
I really appreciated the Long John Silvers analogy to help me understand how a pork bill works 😂 that has to be the most fast forwarded segment in TH-cam history. Otherwise, outstanding. Love you.
Haven’t watched yet, but need best organisation too, and an ethical product / aim. And an incentive structure to reward effort. Way more than just capability.
I do not think you have this quite right. (I am trying hard to be polite). What exactly do you mean by meritocracy? It sounds like you think that meritocracy means that should hire the best person. *What does "best" mean?* It is very rare where you have a choice of several people and one of them is obviously better than the others. Realistically, there's probably a bunch of people who would be equally good. Many Studies have been done and it turns out that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to get about a dozen people together who are as different from each other as possible. In this situation, you would actually do better hiring a person who is not a white male because that would help the group's diversity.
Woke in its original meaning is not about forcing equality of outcomes. It was about equality of opportunity. It has been my observation that hiring decision can be subtly or not subtly influenced by differences in race or culture when there is little difference in the qualifications of the individuals involved. This situation exists for millions of hiring decisions each year. We all know that the opportunity to do well in a job depends on getting that job in the first place.
We need discusssion on where and how meritocracy was created. Instead of being inclusive it actually creates friction and rivalry among classes. We are all Americans. You are hired to perform.
He sounds exactly like Vivek
Yes! I couldn't pinpoint it. Lol
Love him!
Similar passion, enunciation , & specificity
Might not just be a coincidence.
100%
My wife thought I had lost my mind when she heard me cheering all by myself and came running in to make sure I was OK. I was cheering because I had just heard that the spending bill didn’t get pushed through. I was cheering because every year, for as long as I can remember, I wasn’t screaming at the TV because that annual cash cow legislation wasn’t walked over to greener pastures as usual, but instead it took an unexpected detour to the slaughter house. Now, under the sanitizing light of day, I will be riveted to X to follow who is voting which way and why. I can only hope this is a new world of transparency. I don’t mind loosing a good fight if it’s a open and level playing field. At least I know the outcome isn’t predetermined and I just have to try harder the next time around.
I love your attitude wish they had walked out but I was concerned about those this would effect.
Are we anticipating a society where privilege no longer rules the roost? Let's start with education in the home. Next, let's look at the schools available to various sectors of society! Does a poor, immigrant or refugee child have access to the the same private school that a wealthy child might have? And... Do we all have equal opportunities to attend the universities that might allow us to become part of that precious group that Musk would like to put at the top of the list for employment?
Are we anticipating a society where privilege no longer rules the roost? Let's start with education in the home. Next, let's look at the schools available to various sectors of society! Does a poor, immigrant or refugee child have access to the the same private school that a wealthy child might have? And... Do we all have equal opportunities to attend the universities that might allow us to become part of that precious group that Musk would like to put at the top of the list for employment?
@@sheilareid766 I take it that you were born here. I suspect this because those comments do not cross the mind of someone who is cut from a struggling immigrant family. My family came here with nothing but the opportunities this country had to offer for those willing to make the effort to seize them. Our education in this country began by learning English by reading comic books (loaned to us by our church) around the kitchen table after dinner every night. Why comic books? The pictures conveyed the meaning of the words. We never took a handout or expected anything that we did not earn. In fact, back in the early 70’s I lost my factory job and the government was going to send me to school to learn a new trade - my father forbid me from taking the handout, so I took out a student loan and paid for the trade school myself. My work ethic was established when I was just 11, I began to become aware that my wardrobe was severely out of date (I wore hand me downs from my 2 older brothers which were already hand me downs when they wore them). If I wanted to improve my situation, I was expected to earn my own money to do it. When I wasn’t in school, I was earning $8 for a 10 hour day on a fishing boat and made additional money selling fish on the dock that had no commercial value. After 3 years, I had saved enough money to buy a clam boat and began making real money and beside the roof over my head, I became self-sufficient and was no longer a burden to my family’s finances. I was taught from a very young age that if you wanted something, you had to work your butt off to attain it. I eventually went to the trade school to learn computer programming. That was the only schooling I had after 12th grade - whatever I needed beyond that was self taught and I managed to turn all that hard work into a very successful 43 year career in a very large aerospace company. So, I have to apologize for not understanding your point of view - my upbringing simply did not allow self pity. I now live a comfortable retirement and spend my time re-enforcing the work ethics of my parents on my 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren. I would like to relay a message that my father drummed into me due to his own experiences and reasons for coming here to begin with. “Never allow the government to control your education, ability to earn a living, or your health. You loose all your freedoms the minute you do. Once lost, it is almost impossible to get them back.” Being born wealthy does not ensure a good outcome. There are many wealthy, but clueless kids pursuing nonsense degrees in very prestigious schools that will never be able to survive on their own. I would rather learn a skill set that give me tools to blaze my own path without relying on anyone else. Wishing you and yours a very Happy Holiday Season and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year. I am feeling a bit hopeful. 🙂🙂🙂
@sheilareid766 you are assuming formal higher education is the only path to success or money.
Everything after that assumption doesn't matter because it's based off a false assumption.
This whole discussion has given me an immense sense of hope that we, as a country, are finally going down the right path for a brighter future for our amazing country. It'll be a tough fight but we'll worth the fight. The country will finally start to witness what a logical society will look like.
WHy do you think Musk should be breaking legs for Old 47?
@@craighermle7727maybe because Republican Party isn’t ideologically aligned, some still Tea Party.
Agreed! The Golden Era is upon us.
@@jamesfishback lolol ok paid trolls
My parents brought us to the USA (legally - it was a difficult journey). We arrived on the Neptunia in the port of New York in 1953 and that was only the start of a long challenging journey up the food chain. However, my parents always stressed to us that this is the greatest country in the world with boundless opportunity. Seven decades later, I have continued that mantra with my own children and, now, with my 6 grandchildren. The one thing that always shocked my parents was that people born here often miss the opportunities and the fact that they were so fortunate to have them laid at their feet just because they were lucky enough to have been born here. People who scoff at this notion should realize that there are countless foreigners who would gladly give anything to trade places with them. I’m so sorry my father recognized his cherished adopted homeland was crumbling in his final years. He was very concerned what was to become of our family in the eroding environment. It gives me some comfort to imagine how happy he would be today witnessing the shifting tide that can right the ship that was driven so far off course. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@retiredbitjuggler3471 simply beautiful! To say nothing of millions who bought with their blood all that we 300 million + take for granted … how close we came to losing it … BUT for a band of modern patriots armed with some - near-forgotten - integrity, a thimble of faith, and God’s grace … America will shine again
Similar story here: parents escaped world horrors in ‘56, learned English, started business, imported me 10 years later; cured me of communism, atheism, & apathetic mediocrity (at best) … grand & great grand children …
Beautiful history. However, I cannot even conceive how the elected president is going to right the ship, when it is so obvious that, if he could, he would catch all the remaining treasures in the ship and let it sink. He will try. Let's hope he does not succeed.
@ the “elected” - wink wink - president
@ Well, it doesn’t surprise me that you missed the whole point. It has nothing to do with Trump or his assembled court. It has everything to do with the majority in this country finally making their voices heard and giving our broken government a mandate to return to what we consider the norm and away from the out of control far left. If you study history, the most brutal regimes first divided their populous across various types (race, religion, culture, …) and then pitting them against each other to weaken them before they went in for the kill (total and inescapable control). My parents lived through that and made sure we understood and recognized it so we wouldn’t fall into that trap. I hope this helps you recognize what was happening and maybe help you to venture outside of your sphere and take in a bigger picture. I don’t wish to offend you, but I would like to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a prosperous and healthy New Year. Best Wishes!
Unfortunately your anecdote does not equal data on this subject. Success bias.
Interesting that the MLK philosophy is now the "far-right". Judging people based on character, not skin color is what defines a merit based system. Amazing how the times have changed. I think the right needs to start flexing MLK.
Its scarry but there is more far right i guess the far left thank God.
You're spot on. MLK would be a Republican today.
This guy is oustanding!!!
Invite him again!
His mind is a gem and it needs to shine and spread.
Thx! Merry Christmas!
I’m in biz for myself since 1996 because when I went out to mow a lawn, after getting kicked out of X-Ray tech training, trying to get $14.00 / hour back then, (partly for being a conservative Christian), I found that when folks saw me break a sweat and WORK HARD, they asked me to do ALL SORTS OF THINGS, for $35.00/ hr, you guys. Go, and do likewise. The Lord will gradually widen the road ahead of you. Don’t take the ride road that gets narrow, by ignoring God and following the lemmings who will fall off the cliff. Yeah, and I’m up to 60.00 / hr now.
Silent racism of low expectations
Truth.
"The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not much on their personality, it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart."
-Elon Musk
I hadn’t heard that, but spot on.
Then need to appropriately reward that behaviour.
He might have been thinking of Sam Altman
I have a cousin who worked for a Texas congressman from the panhandle for many years, moved to the FDA, then FEMA, and is now retired. When Trump was elected the first time, I told him back in 2016, maybe we will finally get our Federal budget in order. He told me then, it will NEVER EVER happen because the way you have to vote for terrible things to get the small thing you want. He was responsible for writing legislation when he worked for the congressman. Let's hope Viveck becomes speaker and we change the way things are done voting one item at a time, or at least an 8 page limit with congressman's names next to the things they want. That would be a game changer. Elon needs to stay at Tesla. I would like to retire in the next 2-3 years.
We need this in the medical field. There are so many government regulations, etc that make healthcare incredibly complicated/inefficient. It’s ripe for disruption.
Medical might need this more than any other field. Unfortunately, in order to disrupt an industry we need people who understand that industry - and medical is also the field which people who are not part of it are least likely to understand.
Which is to say, we need people from within the medical field to push the sort of disruptions we need to fix things, and if there are such people they have unfortunately not come to prominence yet, and therefore have not come to the attention of those who can fund and support them in their efforts.
_Possibly_ RFK Jr. can change that, as he is at least a rallying point for such people now.
@ I respectfully disagree. Most of the disfunction in healthcare isn’t the care itself. We almost always know exactly what is wrong with people and how to fix whatever problem it is they have. The problem is getting access to the care you need in a timely manner. There are an absurd number of hoops to jump through to get what you need. Someone I know was recently told they would have to wait two weeks for someone to call them to schedule an appointment, and that appointment would be some 2-3 months in the future. The difficulty part is that in the auto industry, if something gets messed up, someone goes without a car for a few weeks. In healthcare if you mess up, people die, and people rightfully get really angry when people die.
It’s an incredibly complex issue, and there’s a lot of discussion to be had about whether it’s healthcare or sick care. If we want to prevent people from getting sick in the first place, that’s a very different issue, basically what RFK is going to work on. That will solve a lot of the healthcare system by just not getting sick in the first place, but it doesn’t solve everything.
1:03:45 Exactly. This is the whole point. Some people hate meritocracy because they don't measure up. They prefer darkness over light.
what a fabulous discussion thank you Farzad for discussing the future of our country, this is what is on the minds of the people that have been silenced by political games. Thank you Farzad Thank you DOGE!!
Let's gooo USA!! Let's get our country back! Our country doesn't belong to the politicians.
It's not in the hands of politicians. It's in the hands of the corporations that control the government.
Correct, it belongs to non-elected billionaires, which is much better
@@piaeichberg Do you mean AIPAC?
Couldn't agree more!
America is not a white country. As long as we all remember this we won't need affirmative action.
James Fishback articulated so well, same aura i get when Vivek Ramaswamy speaks. Awesome points from your guest Farzad!
43:30 There's no good reason to not be using a Git-like approach to handling bills. Every piece of legislation become a repo, all proposals are tracked and who made the change. Votes on whether the bill is passed or not is clearly visible. Bills are just pull requests. This would allow for many small changes to be passed quickly. It would also give good reason for lawmakers to be in the office (or at least working remotely).
I'm ready for a new America..!! About time !!
We need DOGE in Canada! Heck the whole World need to be Doged!
Agreed. Get ret of JT first. DOGE next.
Amazing episode
Farzad and Hans were awesome to chat with!
Just a reminder 30 TRILLION dollars in debt!
From here in Australia 🇦🇺. Trump wants to increase spending to make him look like Santa, and then you have Elon playing the Christmas Grinch. I don't think this duo wont
work well together.
Farzad, can you get this guy on as a Friday regular with Hans who is also great, all like minds & anti woke 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
Perfect. Need something like All In.
DEI is racism
Elon musk has the spirit of Benjamin Franklin!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Everyone was represented because they showed up at the University Library for 8 hrs/day on weekends and studied their asses off like Elon!
2024 - Year of lies.
2025 - Year of transparency, accountability and freedom of speech.
Pro Freedom.
I agree. I'm a woman in a man's world, and I hate that they have to put me over the men. I friggin hate that crap. I want to be treated as an equal. But then again, I do things differently from a man, and that has helped me excel in my field. However, if they hadn't given me a little mercy in the beginning, I probably would not have succeeded.
Excellent Clarence Thomas autobiography tells how he, educated under racial quotas in law school, was expected to be a poor performer, by his employers, with that subtle racism in his past, and he had to perform extremely well to overcome the prejudice that came from that subtle form of “quota racism.”
How was subtle racism in his past, when king and Malcom were his contemporaries? ( if I'm mistaken please correct me)
So that explains his current extreme right rulings, and his open corruption?
Is Thomas your best example?
@@heyoka33 he fully acknowledges the challenges he faced. Havd gig acknowdged his accomplishments?
@@lopezb blah blah blah, slander slander slander. I was once like you. God is not amused. But come back with some facts, next time
Because nothing beats racism like quota racism.
I'm a firm believer in meritocracy, but with meritocracy comes the possibility of group disparities. If you're going to push meritocracy then you must be willing to defend the existence of group disparities when it comes to employment and educational advancement.
Of course the way things are going humans are going to lose out due to merit to AI and robots any way.
A real good one - thanks for your work and to everyone here.
Congress has not had a pay raise since 2009. The federal minimum wage has not been increased since 2009. I wonder which will be changed first.
Strike one for Old 47 , actually, it's Old 45 and his First Boy.
Merit based will get you natural diversity-excellent point.
Truth!
Blacks with excellent education are very creative
My success is all due to me. The fact I’m a white heterosexual male with a Scottish/English heritage - had nothing to do with my success. All folks wielding power in my communities looked like me - I witnessed discrimination in every part of society growing up. I avoided problems because of merit 100%. Whether I got a job based on merit may have been somewhat true - but there were huge hidden advantages.
It would be nice if you had a balanced approach to discussing this subject.
Farzad, what's up with this drivel? I'm really disappointed. This guy is a joke. Yes DEI has overshot the mark but this guy wouldn't know meritocracy if it bit him in the arse. Maybe he's just too young to grasp the truth. It was not a meritocracy when Ivy League school admissions were regularly based on legacy. Or when whole swaths of the population were barred from leadership positions including virtually all women and all people of color including Indian and Chinese people. Even with overzealous DEI hiring and promotion society is WAY more meritocratic than it was 20, 30 or 40 years ago. It's not even close. Go back and try to find someone who looks like you on TV from 30 years ago talking about anything serious, You won't find them.
remember this, when you create a class of unworthy workers, you better damn well make sure you look after them or your going to have a revolution. Note, if the people you elected are a bit short in the deck, you really think they have been elected on meritocrecy? Assuming people whose one skill in life is to collect money are good at anything else is insane. Rich people know how to horde money.......things like empathy and restraint....probably not. The rich are again making the rules........
Been going on longer than people think. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame said he was passed over for promotion in the banking industry no less than three times. I applied for a job at post office in Canada many years ago, and clicked the box that agreed to participate in the Employment Equity Program. Which meant I disqualified myself for the job.
His managers told him straight out, they couldn't promote him because he was a white male.
Thank god farzad woke up from this summer when he said he’d never vote for trump
For sure. Lot's of people have awaken to reality. Now it's time to set our federal fiscal house in order and tell congress we will not put up with this deficit spending anymore. Live within our means & stop the pork.
Farzad in good company.
I admire ability to change opinion when facts change.
Farzad walks into a room wearing his T-shirt, “The robots are coming.” Someone glances at him and says, “Oh, they’re coming, alright... Give it a few years, and they’ll be better at it than us!”
We need the Technocratic Party of America!! 🇺🇸
One of the reason that Intel does so poorly is because the DID take the DEI approach 10-15 years ago. They lack the superstars needed to execute so.ething as complex as manufacturing cutting edge semeconductors.
I believe one of the jobs of congress is to pass a budget. There have been few budgets enacted recently. Continuing Resolutions is not a good way to operate the country. Building the interstate highway system could not have been achieved if the budget was a series of 3 month funding resolutions.
A really great discussion and I e learned a lot. I believe in first principles, I’ve studied how Elon employs first principles and I’m attempting to deploy this practice in my work and daily life.
I’m disappointed by the lack of first principles being employed in this discussion. From a first principle perspective, racial quotes were employed to address racial discrimination in hiring practices. Meritocracy by itself will not correct discrimination in hiring. Let’s have a first principle discussion on what is needed to ensure that all applicants have a fair, equitable and just opportunity to be hired. This must extend through career promotions at all levels. This would be a very interesting and challenging discussion,
Along these lines. I’m a retired college professor with a career in which I was on countless search and screen committees. I watched my faculty colleagues choose white applicants constantly over equally qualified applicants with a different color or cultural background.
Please, in the name of first principles, let’s have these discussions too.
i seem to remember Elon was a ruthless businessman in another life. Expecting goodness to flow from his blood, be good to see but i wouldnt expect it.
Meritocracy only when is needed. Nation rules
Great podcast. Better than All-In this week. Thanks for letting your guest really speak. Foundational stuff and important. Glad you’re all in on DOGE.
The Trump Train is a revolution..and it's running full speed!
3 Bills available, which are merit based.
One Subject at a Time Act (see Rand Paul) Read the Bill Act, Write the Bill Act.
These are available for decades.
It was not that way 30 to 40 years ago, it can be done!
I'm not American but I clearly see America is still, despite the Democrats, the greatest country to invest in.
Will this ETF be available to us EURO-poor? We have pretty strict regulation about transparency for ETFs for retail customers :/
"The Speaker of the House, does not need to be, by law, a member of Congress".....I learnt that this morning......Yeah, me too :)
Sometimes I worry that we may create a dystopia.There have been some advances in technology that could help law enforcement agencies, but it could also be abused and violate the rights of people.I think that the majority of people have a vague understanding of the situation, but I don't think that most people are aware at just how far technologies have advanced.
WHY does voting HAVE to entail members of the house or senators travelling to "the House" in this day and age. With modern technology this voting could be done from the members own office all over America. This will show who voted for what and enable multiple bills to be passed through the system more efficiently and cost the tax payers less monies. One could argue that this prevents discussions within party lines but again this can be done through the internet or on cell phones. America is not using modern technology to improve ways of doing business.
Does FSD work yet?
The remaining problems are no more difficult than those they have already solved. Tesla has arrived at an architecture and training method that seems to only need scaling of data, compute, and model size. At this point, profitable robotaxi service at mass scale is far more likely than not.
To be fair, anyone in an engineering team always welcomes more females and diversity. Engineering teams are so homogenous and that can get boring. If diversity is a competitive advantage, I don’t see any issues with that.
Why the heck he sounding like Vivak? But i like his message here
This dude is literally a Vivek clone. Had I not watched on video I would thought he was Vivek. His tone, cadence, and vocabulary is almost the exact same.
There is also a picture of unfairness, which I experienced: the standardized tests, which everyone hates for some reason or another, either because they don’t reward people with a less intellectual upbringing, etc. told me that I was brilliant: “Iowa basics,” 99%, PSAT, (telling me I was in the top three people in my graduating class of 140) etc: . But when I went out into the workplace and found out that politeness, punctuality, and not being a smart Alec, or abrasive, wee what was REALLY. valued? -It was quite shocking to me and it took years to overcome the feeling that I was “special” -long before the “everyone gets a trophy” era -because of a piece of paper.
This whole argument will look ABSURD in 3-5 years when Ai has all the jobs.
There would not be any AI without it.
Definitely the best Vivek Ramaswamy impersonation that I have seen thus far.
Unreal conversation. EGOD!!!! Mind blown.
I love the idea of Azoria. It is cut from the cloth I was raised under. I will be keeping an eye out for it. I don’t typically invest in ETF funds because I dislike the overemphasis many of them focus on DEI. I have no issues with diversity as long as it is not forced. I witnessed that in my own long career and it may have checked off a box, but the observations were not optimal. My strongest manager in my 43 year career was a woman, but not because of DEI - she kicked butt when it counted (sometimes it was mine).
With Elon and Trump now working with Qvarden Token is going to absolutely blow up
Also think these guys miss the point that there are always thousands of people who qualify and are “most qualified for the job.” Come on, let’s be real. A lot of software engineers are hired to copy and paste code. In that case, where many candidates are best fit for the job, I don’t think it hurts to hire someone that can help make the team more interesting and bring fresh perspectives because diversity is lacking.
I'd like to affirm a point on diversity in stating my position that the lack of societal support for educating a diverse public into industry progress and innovation has neglectfully left the American population generally unchallenged educationally and thereby unprepared for excellence. Can we fix and evenly distribute the system of education in excellence to bring the diversity of US talent into fruition?!
There is a market cycle that is 18.5 years. We are theoretically going in to the peak over the next year or two. Will be interesting watch unfold.
I fully support a meritocracy environment. I have been blessed with top 10% ability and it serves me well. I also, however, have associates with fewer gifts through no fault of their own and have deep concerns about where they end up. Similarly where do any of us fall when superior A.I. bots are performing ALL the intellectual and physical tasks? These are the important issues to address, both for government and social policy.
farzad confuses kakistocracy and meritocracy, sell me more vapor, please
LOL, imagine still being a vaporbro
Continue the status quo in the US and fail.
Great episode!!!
Is this whute Vivek? :D
We could be seeing the carbs being cut out from the federal government.
Thank you gentlemen, this is such a breathe of fresh air.
If Elon Musk intends to implement a Meritocracy within a Kleptomaniacal Plutocracy then it's a case of an irresistable force meeting an immovavle object and something is going to have to give!
Can Elon musk change the system from within?
The problem is the material that he has to, 'work with'!
Who is that Vivek Ranaswami voice clone petson? He sounds indistinguishable from Vivek. ISD it by design or by chance?
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana. Be careful you are playing with our nations security.
I can't stand looking at the Ebomb. He is the anti Chris. Pure evil
I really appreciated the Long John Silvers analogy to help me understand how a pork bill works 😂 that has to be the most fast forwarded segment in TH-cam history. Otherwise, outstanding. Love you.
Haven’t watched yet, but need best organisation too, and an ethical product / aim.
And an incentive structure to reward effort.
Way more than just capability.
DEI has its place only once meritocracy is established.
If Trump puts at least $200,000 in Qvarden, I am going all in
It is astonding how naive this group is. Democracy is messy people.
Qvarden Token will go 100x after launch on Binance
Newsflash: Henry Ford did not hire based on meritocracy. Meritocracy only became a thing when the pool of applicants included EVERYONE.
Qvarden Token will make millionaires, after CEX listing it will blow up.
Too many ads, really irritating.
DOGE BACKWARDS= EVERYONE GETS OUTTA DEBIT..
Elon have 0 time to be House Speaker.. We need go to Mars, this is the most important!
I'm off to Farzad's Spotify. ..too many commercials here.
I do not think you have this quite right. (I am trying hard to be polite).
What exactly do you mean by meritocracy? It sounds like you think that meritocracy means that should hire the best person.
*What does "best" mean?*
It is very rare where you have a choice of several people and one of them is obviously better than the others. Realistically, there's probably a bunch of people who would be equally good.
Many Studies have been done and it turns out that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to get about a dozen people together who are as different from each other as possible. In this situation, you would actually do better hiring a person who is not a white male because that would help the group's diversity.
Qvarden Token is easily going to hit $1 this month
Woke in its original meaning is not about forcing equality of outcomes. It was about equality of opportunity. It has been my observation that hiring decision can be subtly or not subtly influenced by differences in race or culture when there is little difference in the qualifications of the individuals involved. This situation exists for millions of hiring decisions each year. We all know that the opportunity to do well in a job depends on getting that job in the first place.
OMG-- I LOVE THIS INTERVIEWEE. HE IS VIVEK'S YOUNGER BROTHER, INDEED.
X and Qvarden Token are going to be merged. Easiest money in my life
I’ve been wanting to create an index that is basically S&P500 minus pharma, defense, and legacy auto.
Eyy shout out the to Broward Community college squad !!
Americans live in that mess for long time!!!
I would like a show of hands: who wants the most "inclused" physician instead of the most qualified?
We need discusssion on where and how meritocracy was created. Instead of being inclusive it actually creates friction and rivalry among classes. We are all Americans. You are hired to perform.