Dan Hollaway
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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In government, we called it the wobbly wheel theory. So Congress passes some appropriations bill. It gets sent over to OPM. You have to do this job. You have two years to do it. And OPM, Office of Personal Management, who does the hiring and firing for the government, says, okay, well, based on our research, we need two people to do that job. It's like, all right, cool. You hire two people.
One of them sucks. So instead of firing that person, which becomes notoriously difficult after their two-year probationary period, which is why Trump is dumping all these probationary period people, then they just hire two more people to do the job. Now you've got four people doing the job of two people. That's government in a nutshell. That's how it works, and it's fucking stupid.
Well, accountability is what really matters, right? And when I say accountability, I mean down to the individual level. Fucking Andy, here are things that you need to get done and you're responsible for them. If you need help, ask for help. But you're responsible for getting this across the finish line. Do whatever you got to do to make that happen.
So I can come back to you as one man and say, hey, did you get it done? And the answer is either yes or no. Right. And if you diffuse responsibility, then nobody's ever responsible for shit. Right. And that is a complete disaster. No matter what it is, if it's like a military operation or a business or the government running itself, no matter where you see that, it's nonsense.
Somebody has to be accountable.
I mean, that's like, especially, this is the problem with most startups. They get money from somewhere and instead of learning lessons, they buy their way out of stupid situations and they end up four, five, six years down the road and they're looking at an exit sale. Yeah. Right. Because you're making good revenue. And I look at your net revenue. I'm like, what is all this bullshit?
You're getting your now you're going to get a multiplier on net revenue instead of a multiplier on EBITDA because your company is not growing the way it's supposed to.
Got a lot of fat.
Yeah.
We call that self-selection. Yeah. Yeah, there's got to be a direct line between effort and outcome that's baked into the human being's brain, right? And that's a survival instinct for us.
Yeah, I mean, it's we've dissociated ourselves from this. It's and it's again, this is basic instinct for human beings. You don't work, you don't eat. That's how it works, right? For us. And then we told people, it's OK if you don't work, you can still eat. And that's where society began to crumble. A thousand percent. Yeah. You know, and there's always ways to get it back.
Usually, unfortunately for us, we have to learn that lesson the hard way. It's got to go completely wrong. And then the chaff gets blown away with the wind.
There's three elements to it, right? So the first one is what you said, and there's kind of a duality to this. It's that... They've never felt any kind of external oppression, right? So they have oppression FOMO now because oppression is the currency, the social currency of today used to be honor, courage, right? Being a good man.
Now it's victimhood, right? So when you take that into account, these people have oppression FOMO. This person who wants to feel socially accepted or honored or whatever the fuck you want to call it, now is completely excluded from that because they're white. Yeah. Right? So that's why you see at these Antifa rallies, the people that aren't funded by Soros or Russia directly, right?
They're the only reason those people are there. And then including some of those people who are taking money from them are just there because they're butthurt for no reason. Right. So so that's that's one element. The second element is when it finally comes and hits them in the face. It's NIMBY, not in my backyard. Right. When illegal immigrants start showing up to Cape Cod and shit like that.
Martha, you know, it's like, oh, not here, buddy. Yeah, not here. We got to get these guys.
They like they had hundreds of legals gone and 10 hours from there. Right.
It was the best. It was so funny. It was so funny, man. Oh, my God. I got quite a bit of joy out of that. And then the other part is something you also alluded to, and this is the – and I think it does have something to do with this disconnect between effort and outcome that people have. It is – we go through this whole cycle.
I think Huberman's actually talked about this from a physiological standpoint, but people go through this cycle where there's a thing that needs to get done in society. And we have been programmed by hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of years of evolution to address that issue. You see somebody that's suffering and it,
makes you feel some kind of way and you want to stop that shit from happening right that's a good person feels that way yeah so you go over there and stop it that's how you do that and then you get rewarded you get oxytocin you get serotonin you get dopamine immediately you get serotonin over time you get oxytocin because you start to develop a connection with that person Right.
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