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you know that? That's not their business model. That's what they promise you. That's why you put your money there, to make money. But that's not their business model. No, their business model is to get as much of your money away from you and into their pockets as they can. So they want you to not put your money in one place and have it sit there, although they could make money on just managing it…
← Previous segment →is being reported at least in right-leaning news is that students are a bunch of and if they were as tough as they used to be they would just take that hard class and they'd suck it up and that's the way it is and you don't get participation trophies.
And I'm completely on the other side of that. I've experienced science being made harder than it needs to be. Is it my imagination that organic chemistry is intentionally harder than it should be? Intentionally, yes or no? Intentionally harder than it needs to be. Why is it designed to be 10 times harder than other courses? No good reason.
Here's something I'm going to say with no experience in organic chemistry. This is what people hate me for, to say things completely out of my area of expertise but I'm still right. The problem is the incompetence of the people who make the class. There's no, you could not convince me that you can't make that class manageable and still useful because we have computers now, right? I feel like you could teach people the concepts and tell them to use the computer to do the hard stuff and you'd be fine, right? I'm pretty sure it's just trying to find. Yeah, maybe it's. And I think that that's giving them too much credit to say that they make it hard to weed out the dumb people. That's not what they're doing intentionally. I think they're just really bad at teaching. It's just bad teaching.
And here's what informs me. I've told you this story before. So years ago I thought I would write a book on personal finance because I have a background in economics and business and stuff and I've been doing a lot of investing. And I thought I could write a book on personal investing. People would like that. I'll simplify it. And then the problem was that I could put the entire book on one page, which I did. I put it on one page and I didn't even have to single space it. Turns out that everything you need to know about personal finance fits on one page with lots of extra space.
And then you go to the library, you see like books and books on personal finance. So what's that all about? Do you want me to tell you what that's all about? It's people who didn't know how to teach it. That's it. The entire field of finance is entirely about people who aren't good at explaining stuff. And the first time there's somebody who is good at explaining stuff entered the field, me, I put it on one page.
Now if you're saying to yourself but yeah but who agreed that you did it right, well have you ever heard the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street? Burton Malkiel, Princeton, one of the most famous economists in the world wrote the book on personal investing. He contacted me and asked me if he could put my one page in his book because he thought I covered it all. He is basically considered maybe the number one expert in the field and he says I took the entire field and put it on one page. He says he was going to try to do it himself and the reason he didn't is because I did it. He goes, oh you already did it. Can I? Now I don't think he actually published it. I don't know why, but he got permission.
Henry, let's give Henry a little lesson here. So Henry over here, I like to catch these people. Scott likes to brag about his greatness. What do you think this show is? The entire show is me predicting things and then seeing how I do. The only reason you're watching me is you think I could do it better than you could. Why the
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would you watch me if you don't think I could do better than you? You should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this because apparently I have nothing to teach you, nothing to say. All right, you need to work on your ego if that's where you're at. Pretty low level of awareness. Remember I told you that the press would come after me before the elections? Reme…
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