longer just good at stuff, just good at basic stuff.

Now I don't think it's all a diversity hiring situation. There's also something about young people. If you took a 16-year-old from my generation, you would think that they were 25 today. Do you realize that? Right? A 16-year-old from my generation, if you just introduced them into the modern world, people would think they were 25 because they would act capable. They would be able to do what most 25-year-olds can do, and they would do it right in front of you, and they wouldn't complain, and they would show up on time, and they'd work hard, and they would have some future in mind for themselves. You would never see that with the 16-year-old today.

So there's a competency problem of just young people are not being taught just to do stuff, just simply doing things. Because if you're playing video games, you're in an artificial world where all the problems are artificial. If you spend all of your time in the real world, you're solving real problems all day long, just one after another. If you sit in front of your video games, you're solving problems, but they're all the fake ones that don't apply to the real world anyway.

I think the competence problem is big and bad. It has something to do with things are getting more complicated. So at the same time our capabilities might be coming down for several different reasons. The complexity of our systems is going up. And I think we've reached some kind of a crossover point where we're generally just not capable of handling our own systems. We don't have the capability to handle it.

All right. I saw a graph on a tweet from Razib Khan, and he said what's happened in the late 2010s to drive women to the left? So it was a graph that showed that women and young women in particular, in the late 2010s, suddenly the graph that had been relatively flat for a long time just went — this is a zoop — and women became super lefty in the last 10 years or so. Super lefty.

And he asked what caused it. Why did young women become super left? And I would say there's only one reason: propaganda. No propaganda. If you say it's the MeToo thing, it's part of that. That becomes part of the propaganda. If you say it's about abortion, yes, that's part of the propaganda. And what about colleges? It also coincides with a huge increase in college enrollment of women in soft majors. Do you think that made any difference? Of course it did. It made a huge difference.

So you've got MeToo, you've got the college universities, you've got social media persuading in one direction, you've got the mainstream media persuading in the same direction. So the surprise would be if it didn't happen, right? If you looked at all the stuff that was happening. Oh, and specifically the rise of Trump. When Trump hit the scene, the entire mainstream media tried to make him the enemy of women, right?

So you could totally see that it was propaganda. It was based on real events in the world, but then it was propagandized. And women were the most affected, probably because the natural topics were more in their domain, right? And so the MeToo stuff was mostly a woman problem, not entirely but mostly. And abortion feels like mostly a female problem, not entirely but you know. So I feel like that's the least mysterious shift we've ever seen. It's completely obvious from the propaganda and the topics that were in the news.

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