But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I learned from a long career in math finance to never hire mathematicians (PhD in math) to solve math problems or toy with actual equations. You get a better payoff with a "matheux" who studied (undergrad) electrical engineering in India, Russia, Lebanon, or Brazil.

The bottom half has been typically screwed by the middle class. That's the entire story of Rome.

"When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The only people in favor of centralization are lobbyists, bureaucrats, & DC parasites. Yet the world is centralizing." - Taleb