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Vivek Ramaswamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4261 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Ironically, it's funny how these things change with the bureaucracies that fail. They blow smoke to cover up for their own failures. What happens with today's Department of Education? They effectively say you don't get that funding unless you adopt certain goals deemed at achieving racial or gender equity goals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Ironically, it's funny how these things change with the bureaucracies that fail. They blow smoke to cover up for their own failures. What happens with today's Department of Education? They effectively say you don't get that funding unless you adopt certain goals deemed at achieving racial or gender equity goals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Ironically, it's funny how these things change with the bureaucracies that fail. They blow smoke to cover up for their own failures. What happens with today's Department of Education? They effectively say you don't get that funding unless you adopt certain goals deemed at achieving racial or gender equity goals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And in fact, they also intervene in the curriculum where there's evidence of schools in the Midwest or in the Great Plains that have been denied funding because Department of Education funding so long as they have certain subjects like archery. There was one instance of a school. that had archery in its curriculum. I find that to be pretty interesting, actually.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And in fact, they also intervene in the curriculum where there's evidence of schools in the Midwest or in the Great Plains that have been denied funding because Department of Education funding so long as they have certain subjects like archery. There was one instance of a school. that had archery in its curriculum. I find that to be pretty interesting, actually.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And in fact, they also intervene in the curriculum where there's evidence of schools in the Midwest or in the Great Plains that have been denied funding because Department of Education funding so long as they have certain subjects like archery. There was one instance of a school. that had archery in its curriculum. I find that to be pretty interesting, actually.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think you have different kinds of physical education. This is one that combines mental focus with physical aptitude. But hey, maybe I'm biased. Doesn't matter whether you like archery or not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think you have different kinds of physical education. This is one that combines mental focus with physical aptitude. But hey, maybe I'm biased. Doesn't matter whether you like archery or not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think you have different kinds of physical education. This is one that combines mental focus with physical aptitude. But hey, maybe I'm biased. Doesn't matter whether you like archery or not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I don't think it's the federal government's job to withhold funding from a school because they include something in their curriculum that the federal government deems inappropriate, where that locality found that to be a relevant locus of education. So what you see then is an abandonment of the original purpose that's long past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I don't think it's the federal government's job to withhold funding from a school because they include something in their curriculum that the federal government deems inappropriate, where that locality found that to be a relevant locus of education. So what you see then is an abandonment of the original purpose that's long past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I don't think it's the federal government's job to withhold funding from a school because they include something in their curriculum that the federal government deems inappropriate, where that locality found that to be a relevant locus of education. So what you see then is an abandonment of the original purpose that's long past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

You don't have this problem that the Department of Education was originally formed to solve of siphoning money from black school districts to white school districts and laundering that effectively in public funds. That doesn't exist anymore. So they find new purposes instead, creating a lot more damage along the way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

You don't have this problem that the Department of Education was originally formed to solve of siphoning money from black school districts to white school districts and laundering that effectively in public funds. That doesn't exist anymore. So they find new purposes instead, creating a lot more damage along the way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

You don't have this problem that the Department of Education was originally formed to solve of siphoning money from black school districts to white school districts and laundering that effectively in public funds. That doesn't exist anymore. So they find new purposes instead, creating a lot more damage along the way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

So you asked me to steel man it, and could I say something constructive rather than just, you know, pounding down on the other side? One way to think about this is for a lot of these agencies, Were many of them formed with a positive intention at the outset? Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

So you asked me to steel man it, and could I say something constructive rather than just, you know, pounding down on the other side? One way to think about this is for a lot of these agencies, Were many of them formed with a positive intention at the outset? Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

So you asked me to steel man it, and could I say something constructive rather than just, you know, pounding down on the other side? One way to think about this is for a lot of these agencies, Were many of them formed with a positive intention at the outset? Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Where that positive intention existed, I'm still a skeptic of creating bureaucracies, but if you're going to create one, at least make it, what should we call it, a task force. Make it a task force. A task force versus an agency means after it's done, you celebrate, you've done your work, pat yourself on the back and then move on.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Where that positive intention existed, I'm still a skeptic of creating bureaucracies, but if you're going to create one, at least make it, what should we call it, a task force. Make it a task force. A task force versus an agency means after it's done, you celebrate, you've done your work, pat yourself on the back and then move on.