Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.