Bret Weinstein

And so, A, we're not even doing that, right?

We've got this system in which we are allowing people who know nothing to teach children the nothing that they know as if it was high-minded and important.

And then they're immunized from consequences by...

what I think you and I would agree was initially a well-intentioned attempt to protect people from bad luck, that people who are liberal-minded, as you and I both are, don't want to see people suffer because of bad luck.

But when you start immunizing people from the consequences of their bad decision-making, whether the people you're immunizing are

Corporate executives who have gambled badly with the resources of their corporation or children who make bad decisions and it causes them to be disliked at school, people have to have those consequences come back to haunt them so that they will stop making the same mistakes and get wiser.

Any place that you break that with the equivalent of a welfare program, you are guaranteeing that you will end up with an infantilized adult population.

Well, my argument... You turn them into infants.

Yeah, you do.

My argument would be a system functions really well when people are immunized from real bad luck, right?

It's not the consequence of their bad decision-making.

It's actually you happen to get a tumor because of a genetic vulnerability or an encounter with some chemical that you had no ability to know was there.

But that as soon as you start immunizing people from the downstream effects of their own bad decisions where they had better decisions that were available to them, you just get the evolution of civilization into a quagmire.

I can't see how it could go well.

I understand.

Right.

And what we really need to do, and I do not see any mechanism that is capable of it, but what we really need to do is figure out how we want people to allocate their time.

what problems we would like them to address themselves to, right?

And then we need to reward them for success relative to those problems and allow them to suffer from the failure to make progress relative to those problems.

Now, I don't exactly know what those problems are because civilization is changing so fast that it's very hard to even define what it is that will need to be done.