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((Micro$oft is a publicly subsidized mega-corporation which (along
with Silicon Valley competitors and enablers, like Intel) has simultaneously stripped much of the developing world of its smart fraction and destroyed the hope for good careers for hundreds of thousands of Americans, mostly male but some female, mostly white but some nonwhite, whose only failing is being smarter than average but not enormously brilliant, and not from moneyed, connected families like Mr. Gates. It's time-well, no, it's long past time, we treated M$ like a utility and not a "free market business" which it is not and never has been. Bret.)) Tom Friedman Repeats Phrase “High I.Q. Risk-Takers” 8 Times [Steve Sailer] @ 12:32 pm [Email author] [Email this article] [Print this article] [Print this article] "Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times: After all, Craig Mundie, the chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft, asks: What made America this incredible engine of prosperity? It was immigration, plus free markets. Because we were so open to immigration–and immigrants are by definition high-aspiring risk-takers, ready to leave their native lands in search of greater opportunities — “we as a country accumulated a disproportionate share of the world’s high-I.Q. risk-takers.” … In its heyday, our unique system also attracted a disproportionate share of high-I.Q. risk-takers to high government service. So when you put all this together, with our free markets and democracy, it made it easy here for creative, high-I.Q. risk-takers to raise capital for their ideas and commercialize them. … “When you get this happy coincidence of high-I.Q. risk-takers in government and a society that is biased toward high-I.Q. risk-takers, you get these above-average returns as a country,” argued Mundie. “What is common to Singapore, Israel and America? They were all built by high-I.Q. risk-takers and all thrived … It isn’t drastic, but it is a decline–at a time when technology is allowing other countries to leverage and empower more of their own high-I.Q. risk-takers. If we don’t reverse this trend, over time, “we could lose our most important competitive edge–the only edge from which sustainable advantage accrues”–having the world’s biggest and most diverse pool of high-I.Q. risk-takers, said Mundie." http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/04/04/tom-friedman-repeats-phrase-high-iq-risk-takers-8-times/ |
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On Apr 4, 6:35*pm, Bret L wrote:
Does anybody ever bother to read Bratzi's tripe? One wonders why he bothers posting. The world, it would seem, has passed him by. LOL! |
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