Daniel K. Colby

🚨ELON MUSK: "I think the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards. I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we need electricians and plumbers and carpenters and that's a lot more important than having incremental political science majors. I think we should not have this idea that in order to be successful you need a four year college degree."

🇺🇸 Floridian Residents are now reporting purple skies over Florida. Weird.

The quality improvement movement hasn't improved healthcare quality, especially when taking into account the massive amount of money and manpower we spent collecting and analyzing quality metrics. A new paradigm is necessary.

My wife and I left graduate school 23 years ago with a combined total of $70,000 debt. Since then we've made $500 monthly payments for 23 years ($120,000+). Today, we still owe $60,000. Explain to me again why student loan debt shouldn't be cancelled.

Are you a Silicon Valley super-magnate with a billion-dollar fortune, or appreciable fraction thereof? Were you born into the investor class, with red-carpet access to Ivy League universities, and plenty of family and social circle seed money to build your business once you graduated? Did learn entrepreneurship and business management at your parents' knee from the moment you understood the concept? Do you feel a vague sense of existential guilt because you realize that the world is full of talented people who didn't get the chances you got? DO. NOT. ADVOCATE. COMMUNISM. Instead, see a therapist. You could also endow some charities and scholarship funds and stuff, but most importantly, see a therapist. Your vague existential guilt is not a call to change society. It is just your personal problem, one of the only personal problems you have. It's a problem that exists in your head, so you must solve it in your head, not by ruining your entire civilization just so you can feel like you are "doing something". The problem of lack of opportunities for talented members of the underclass has always existed (ask me how I know), and you are not going to solve it just by thinking about laws for five minutes. It ain't that fucking easy. Solving society's "forever problems" is not as simple as building a profitable website in an office in San Mateo. Typically the only thing that permanently removes a problem from the human experience is a new piece of technology. Not a new political philosophy. And especially not an old, failed one. Communism does not level the playing field. It sets the playing field on fire, and removes the ball. And the middle class are not chess pieces for you to move around so you can solve your emotional problems. You should not be ashamed of having hundreds of millions of dollars. Instead, you should be ashamed of being a fucking communist in 2023. In 1845, there was plenty of excuse for being a communist. They didn't know any better. They had no idea how terribly everything would go wrong, how high the mountains of corpses would be stacked. In 2023, you have to be a lunatic. What kind of person looks at 100+ years of mass slaughter, torture, rape, starvation, and brutal totalitarian regimes, and says "yeah, but maybe we could try just a little bit of that, and see how it goes?" We've seen how it goes. It goes straight to hell, without the luxury of a handbasket. The experiments are over, and the results are in. The middle class, and the Trumpenproletariat, knows that. They know perfectly well that communist ideas will be sold under a banner of "soak the rich", but weaponized against them, instead. Do you think I am being rude to you? Do you feel like that's off limits? It's not, and that's the whole point. For you, this is a genteel discussion of hypotheticals. For Middle America, it's an existential threat. That's why some of y'all are getting sent pictures of your front doors. Because people who live in a double-wide just outside of Topeka, Kansas have a far better grasp of the ground truth of the early 21st century than you do, and they are trying to tell you that the days of genteel discussion of hypotheticals are over, at least for a while. Because while you putter around with abstract ideas to make society more fair, they are struggling to survive, wondering if their nation can be saved, and trying to think of ways to do so without resorting to a civil war that would rapidly turn into a Rwandan style machete party. I don't want that. You don't want that. Even they don't want that. But if you keep doing this bullshit right here, we are all going to run out of alternatives. So will you please, for the sake of your nation, your civilization, and your families and children, please stop maxxing charisma and intelligence, and start putting some experience points into wisdom?