I think with Trump the whole tariffs not taxes, pay the US for trade, yanking the rug, changing the rules at his whim and so on, is largely driven by him now being able to govern the US they way he w… (View Post)

Dunning and Kruger would have a field day analysing the current US administration. But there must be some people in the US Cabinet who realise that we are seeing Orwell's "doublethink"… (View Post)

I have a pet theory, which I grow more confident about as time passes, that essentially nobody at the top of any organisation you care to name, in any field, is all that competent, but that the syste… (View Post)

Imagine being some of the richest people who ever lived, people who have unquestionably benefited from the system, and instead of seeking to maintain the status quo they think "let's blow i… (View Post)

I've got to be honest I've not seen a lot of evidence in the last couple of decades for their being much correlation between high-pay and prescience. (View Post)