> I firmly believe that there was something very, very important there. Something we're losing. Yeah, it's called critical thinking. There's a lot of people th

> I firmly believe that there was something very, very important there. Something we're losing. Yeah, it's called critical thinking. There's a lot of people that lucked into a lot of money, but without the critical thinking skills to understand their own survivor bias or that the world where they merited such a windfall does not, in fact, exist. > Neither you nor the person you were helping had any idea of how this was all going to work out, and that was just fine. It always worked out, and you always got paid. Mostly. This is false. You actually knew exactly how it was going to work out, because if you got to the point of framing out the problem, you already performed the required analysis. You want to know what happened? You solved it. You won. You automated the drudgery, but the way capitalism and public companies are designed is that you need to keep chasing returns on capital. Returns that aren't there anymore because of the law of diminishing returns. So what do you do? You invent a world where those returns exist. Of course they don't, and the world itself doesn't exist. But you have to invent it to make shareholders and all the workers believe that it does. So there goes your critical thinking out of the window.