Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigat… - Andrew Yang

Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigating conflicts, preparing healthy food, physical fitness, resilience, self-regulation, time management, basic psychology and mental health practices, arts, and music — all of these would help students and also make school seem much more relevant.

The subsistence and scarcity model is grinding more and more people up. Preserving it is the thing we must give up first.

If Cole successfully analyzes an opportunity for the hedge fund and it invests slightly more effectively, that will be a win for the fund’s managers and its investors. But there will very likely be an equivalent loss on the other side of the investment (whoever sold it to them makes out slightly less well for having undervalued the asset). It’s not clear what the macroeconomic benefit is, unless you either favor the hedge fund’s investors over others or have a very abstract view toward capital markets working efficiently.

We must make the market serve humanity rather than have humanity continue to serve the market.