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now, bowling alley that was managed by a 16-year-old kid. Now in my day, when I was a youngster, that wasn't that unusual. Yeah. And if you went back into old timey times, you know, back in the prairie, yeah a 16-year-old with the head of the household, it wasn't that unusual. But do you think a 16-year-old should run a company in 2023? I mean there might be some special ones but it's different.…
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How about the fact that we have lots of college and lots of people going to college but we have lots of college courses that don't make you smart? Does college make you smart? It used to. I'm pretty sure it used to. And there are a lot of college majors, you know if you pick the right major yeah totally it'll make you smarter. But I feel like there's a whole bunch of college majors they're actually designed to make you dumber and that feels new.
A few more things that would make us dumber. We've got a lot of the smart people are retiring. What about just retirement? Do you think we're losing skills because the boomers, the boomers tend to have a wide range of skills. They tend to be talent stackers. I don't know if that's still true. So maybe we're losing stuff to retirements.
And there's also a bubble. You know since the boomers were a big bubble just the fact that boomers had a lot of training and that the group with the most training is also the group that's most retiring. Again it's just math. There's no opinion here. The math requires that you have less qualified people when you're done with those retirements.
How about startups sucking all the smart people into areas that by their nature nine out of ten are going to fail? Well it's probably great for startups because you want your smart people in the startups. But don't you think the startup world is now so large that you can suck the best people out of every corporation? So when the startup world is small you know it can be your smartest people but you still have plenty of smart people just doing their regular jobs.
But what happens when all of the smartest people realize that they could be billionaires if they just do a startup and then nine out of ten fail? So you take your smartest people from environments where most of the time they're succeeding. You put them into a startup situation where by its nature nine out of ten fail. You're basically putting your smartest people into failure and taking them out of success.
Now I don't kn
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ow if that's a net bad or good because those smartest people are creating Google and Apple and stuff like that. So it might come out positive but it's at least one of those things I look at that might be sucking talent out of places we need it. All right, so you put this all together and there might be something that's making us smarter but I can't think of it. The best I could come up with is th…
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