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|content=Nothing would be better for the United States than a 50 year dire [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] without a drop of “legislative relief.” This will never happen. Nevertheless, it’s important to laugh at industries pretending to believe in labor shortages in mkt economies with wage mechanisms.
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|content=US Job Opening Soar To All Time High: 800K More Than Unemployed Workers https://zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/us-job-opening-soar-all-time-high-800k-more-unemployed-workers
|timestamp=3:19 PM ¡ Feb 12, 2019
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|content=What we need is a multi-decade  [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] in STEM that brings technical employers howling in pain about employee wage demands. Family demands. Maternal demands.
The answer is simple: in STEM the wrong people are in pain. It should be our beloved administrators & employers.
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|content=This is the elephant in the lab.
 
A secret reason (which we collected anonymously multiple times at NBER/ASCB) for delaying tenure decisions beyond healthy fertility is departmental fear of committing to top women in research for fear they will find motherhood more fulfilling.
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|content=Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child
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|timestamp=4:10 PM ¡ Feb 26, 2019
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|content=You can blame the Principal Investigators who told us this (both male & female). You can blame the universities. You can blame the messenger. But we need to talk about getting STEM moms a LOT more money for help in the house & make more allowances for staying home for 5-10 years.
|timestamp=4:10 PM ¡ Feb 26, 2019
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|content=And yes, Dads can be more present. But before you go too far down that road, consider that some of the STEM women we spoke to said that they would have WANTED to be at home, particularly with little children (<7) and what they really wanted was a way back to research afterwards.
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|timestamp=4:17 PM ¡ Feb 26, 2019
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|content=The extractive structures suffused throughout Higher Ed are on death watch for collapse:
 
Grant Overhead</br>
Student Debt Slavery</br>
Far Above Inflation Tuition Hikes</br>
Administrator Displacement of Profs</br>
Prestige Journal Premiums</br>
[[Labor Shortages|Labor reclassified as “Training”]]
 
https://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-System/245798
|timestamp=9:32 PM ¡ Mar 1, 2019
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|content=We are our so often own worst enemies
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|content=We’ve been lying about a shortage of scientists continuously since Sputnik. We have too many scientists relative to our anemic level of interest in paying for the basic research that created our modern economy.
 
Why do we believe a &gt;60YO lie? Because of who tells it.
 
Scientists.
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|content=Job opportunities for science graduates have failed to match the push to get more students to study science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM).
https://smh.com.au/business/workplace/glut-in-demand-for-science-graduates-challenges-stem-hype-20190327-p517zj.html
|timestamp=10:26 PM ¡ Apr 13, 2019
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|timestamp=3:07 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2019
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|content=Interesting that so many assume this is referring to US situation. I guess the problem is widespread
|timestamp=5:30 AM ¡ Apr 14, 2019
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|content=@whereisdaz It’s originally driven by the US and the Cold War. But it spread to every developed nation with a decent scientific research enterprise. It’s now world wide as a problem.
|timestamp=6:31 AM ¡ Apr 15, 2019
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|content=The tweet quoted was apparently deleted. It asked why scientists would want to glut their own market and drive wages down. The answer is that we glut the bottom of the pyramid and make sure that those people used to glut the entry never reach the top of the pyramid to compete.
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|content=We train undergraduates in STEM. That gives science professors a salary. Then as graduate students, profs make them teach &amp; do their research work while denying they’re workers. Then as post-docs we ‘apprentice’ them for more extraction.
 
Then after multiple PDs we push them out.
https://x.com/locoono2/status/1117450902946729985
|timestamp=3:42 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2019
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|content=Want to follow an unsung hero?
 
Norm has been fighting the lies of the academy as a STEM professor for years. There were times in the ‘90s when it felt like he and I plus 2 folks at the Sloan foundation were the only STEM PhDs who hadn’t been zombified by the STEM shortage myth.
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|content=Some years ago, some grad students sued UC, claiming they were workers. Then someone from my campus administration ordered faculty to disagree. Yes, you read this right. Of course, we just ignored them.
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|content=And why wouldn’t politicians want to please rich STEM donors rather than poorer STEM workers??
 
But that’s so cynical I’m told. So....let’s forget the whole supply and demand thing and go back once again to concern for the marginalized groups we want to lure into the pipeline...
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|content=Pipeline = [[Labor Shortages|“push out the supply labor curve”]] to make wages FALL.
 
Wouldn’t you want to push up the Demand Curve to make talent crazy expensive and want STEM employers in pain so they would hire every competent soul?
 
Politicians/employers always get this wrong. Huh. I Wonder why.
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|content=Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ Americans are often underrepresented in STEM jobs. Fixing the problem starts with investing in our classrooms. That is why I’ve introduced a bill to build a pipeline of diverse talent for these good-paying jobs.
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|content=Why wouldn't an employer want to increase the pipeline?  It's 100% in their interests.
|timestamp=11:34 PM ¡ May 3, 2019
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|content=The retraining, education, and [[Labor Shortages|“STEM shortage”]] myths are some of the most persistent in our society. Facing them will be unusually painful.
 
Time to bite the bullet anyway.
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|content=Q: Is the key to getting @Kasparov63  back on top over the robots just mumbling “education &amp; retraining” with ever greater conviction?
 
Good for @AndrewYang for pointing out that “The key is more education!” is just a slogan not a plan. He’ll take real heat...but he’s on target.
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|content=8% of US jobs are in STEM fields.  92% are not.  If someone thinks they can train 92% of workers for roles presently occupied by 8% of workers they have a rather fanciful view of both people and work.
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|content=I know of no truly working profession.
 
Medicine: broken.</br>
Law: broken.</br>
Research: broken.</br>
Banking: broken.</br>
Mgmt consulting: broken.
 
You’ll say “STEM, Tech and CS FTW losers!! Woot!!”
 
And I’ll whisper “Bro, thou dost protest way way too much.” Me thinks.
 
https://www.chronicle.com/article/columbia-had-little-success-placing-english-ph-d-s-on-the-tenure-track-alarm-followed-and-the-university-responded/
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|content=If you are interested in how this nauseating game has been played for decades and just how conscious the market tampering is, you should find this rather interesting. It is the national scandal that cannot be fully reported by any major news source:
 
https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
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|content=Let me tell you the secret as a US PhD in Math: the answer is under-compensation.
 
We got it into our head decades ago that we were entitled to STEM-serfs. So we started a rumor that our own US students are so dumb &amp; lazy that we need STEM visas to protect us from our own kids.
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|content=With U.S. students lagging in science, should scientists be elevated to celebrity status?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/12/11/should-scientists-be-considered-celebrities-to-inspire-kids/
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|content=Thus began one of the craziest lies in US history: the market couldn’t be used in STEM! Somehow, despite the theory that compensation should rise to direct our efforts, we started lying about scientist shortages. Math was now so critical that STEM PhDs should be practically free!
|timestamp=12:23 AM ¡ Dec 14, 2019
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|content=If Math &amp; science are so critical, where are our young PhDs with country homes, sports cars, high ranking jobs, multiple offers from top employers at mouth watering levels inducing envy from lawyers, management consultants &amp; investment bankers?
 
Now watch your reaction to that Q.
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|content=You‘re probably thinking: “Why should math &amp; science folks need all those toys, money, security &amp; freedom for their families? They should be happy to work for much less!”
 
Well the market says otherwise. The market says that analytic skills are fungible and we can’t accept that.
|timestamp=12:23 AM ¡ Dec 14, 2019
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|content=And with your reaction you have your answer: we have weirdly decided that STEM talent should work for our national wealth and security but should not unapologetically participate in the power, freedom and pleasure they provide for everyone else. They are STEM serfs to be used. 🙏
|timestamp=12:23 AM ¡ Dec 14, 2019
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|content=They are not thinking they are trying to destroy it. They are thinking that they are entitled to interfere with the wage mechanism. Which they have conspired and lied to do. Sir.
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|content=I want everyone to remember who is deliberately destroying STEM R&amp;D in the US. It’s America’s scientific employers conspiring within the national science complex to flood the market for almost 50Yrs by tampering with the wage mechanism to undermine scientist leverage.
April 1990:
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|content=Here is what no one will say:
 
If you’re too weak to demand US-market level compensation for your family, you‘re too weak to tell an exploitative advisor to buzz off when you’re right. You‘re too weak to do US style science &amp; challenge orthodoxy.
 
You‘re too weak to do the job.
|timestamp=9:58 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2019
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|content=It’s MUCH more important to have strong scientists managing real risk than to fetishize anything else. There is no way to measure, manage or price control breakthrough science.#
 
The only way to screw up US science is to undermine bargaining ability.
 
Which we’ve done for >45Yrs.
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|content=The national science complex lives by tricking each generation into believing massive opportunity is just around the corner. But the market is always flooded.
 
And no one will seriously report the idea that the Science Complex is built around this lie, which killed our vitality.
|timestamp=10:08 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2019
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|content=Let me see if I follow: the NSF is actually not supporting science/innovation but working actively to destroy it by ... "flooding" the market (and lowering STEM wages) with foreigners? I would usually ignore such nonsense, but you call yourself a "math guy," so what's your proof?
|timestamp=1:40 PM ¡ Dec 19, 2019
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|content=First of all, “such nonsense” is a pretty disappointing indication from a Math PhD asking for “proof.” That’s not how we do things in math. If you claim it is nonsense sir, what is your proof?
 
Second of all, with that out of our way. Let’s try again. Nice to meet you, Alex.
|timestamp=2:37 PM ¡ Dec 19, 2019
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|content=Lastly: https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
|timestamp=2:38 PM ¡ Dec 19, 2019
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|content=[Note: people will ask about what the simplifications are about. They are about automation, singular talents that are quite rare, infant industries, temporary shortages, path dependencies, endowment variation, etc., etc.]
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|content=Both @IngrahamAngle &amp; @realDonaldTrump aren’t getting it here. This isn’t about cheap labor. This isn’t about brain power. This is about US capitalism for labor.
 
Let me put it in simplistic terms: Americans are walking away from markets because our capitalists hate capitalism.
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|content=God Bless You @IngrahamAngle for Holding Pres. Trump's Feet to the Fire on His Immigration Promises!
 
Laura expresses the concerns of many America First Conservatives at the WH's plan to import more foreign "high-tech" workers to compete w/ Americans.
 
"You ran on America First."
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|content=It is time...past time...to have our CEOs howling like little wimps. We need something like a [[Labor Shortages|50 year deep labor shortage with zero “Wage Relief”]]. So what if wages go up a bit? Let them go up more and more and MORE until they take an ENORMOUS chunk out of Capital’s share of GDP.
|timestamp=6:25 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|content=What’s the answer to any wage gap for women?
 
What’s the answer to Millenial family formation?
 
What’s the answer to discrimination against Seniors and Youth?
 
What’s the answer to careers after child rearing?
 
What’s the answer to Minority unemployment?
 
A: TIGHT LABOR MARKETS.
|timestamp=6:25 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|content=I’m going to overdo it so that the point is understandable to everyone:
 
When corporations whine about not being able to find smart people to hire, we all win as a society. The goal of making capitalism serve society is to get CEOs to perjure about [[Labor Shortages|non existent labor shortages]].
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|content=Oversimplifying only slightly: The proper job of politicians is to laugh at such corporate CEOs debasing themselves &amp; to ask them about the ratio of their total compensation packages to the compensation packages they are offering: “What happened when you offered 7 or 8 figures??”
|timestamp=6:25 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This message has been brought to you by the pro-market, pro-freedom, Pre-Clinton, Pre-Identity Politics, and Pre-Batshit crazy Patriotic American Left.
|timestamp=6:25 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|timestamp=6:31 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1216077372400627712
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Well, I’ve thought about this. Even published.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=A correct initial point. Wrong (business school friendly type) frame.
 
Given not Zero sum: do you think more or less innovation would happen if labor access rights were securitized &amp; traded as in [[Ronald Coase|Coasian theory]] or if they were confiscated and used as seigniorage as they are now?
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|name=Erik Brynjolfsson
|usernameurl=https://x.com/erikbryn
|username=erikbryn
|content=It’s not zero sum.
 
Do you think wages (and innovation and profits) would be higher or lower if fewer of the very smartest people came to Silicon Valley from the rest of the world?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_development
|timestamp=6:54 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|timestamp=7:16 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1216076465277566976
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Next point: do you think that it is more or less efficient to pretend STEM workers are ‘graduate students’ being paid with [[Immigration|immigration]] lures and not allowed to unionize or is it better to use markets?
|timestamp=7:16 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Additionally, how many of the [[H-1B Visa|H1Bs]] are tethered to “sponsoring employers” or masters? What happens when wage signals are distorted by servitude? How many niche businesses founded by immigrants would have been founded by natives? Why is this often not estimated or set to zero??
|timestamp=7:16 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Overarching point: our entire immigration discussion is framed &amp; structured to come to conclusions favored by employers. It excludes rights issues, efficiency issues, tampering, dilution, externalities. You are interpreting my frame rejection as my not having thought about this.
|timestamp=7:20 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|timestamp=7:20 PM ¡ Jan 11, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=Well, maybe they should go. I hear China is hiring! Also maybe Russia. Posssibly Saudi &amp; Iran too.
 
So go run to your new masters STEM employers. Maybe you weren't cut out to make it in the dynamic freedom loving US economy.
 
Don't let the door hit you on the way out though.,,
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=No. We need to stop having our big hearts used against our own economic interests. True refugees once rescued make FANTASTIC citizens. A tiny number of Geniuses give us an edge &amp; families often need to be together.
 
What's evil is the campaign to destroy worker bargaining power.
|timestamp=5:07 AM ¡ Jan 15, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don't know how many immigrants we'll need. What I do know is coward CEOs want to tame the famously disagreeable &amp; independent US worker and make her/him more pliant. And by threatening that worker with a steady supply of 'the best and the brightest' he or she becomes docile.
|timestamp=5:07 AM ¡ Jan 15, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Since we're drowning in oceans of STEM talent in a market economy where long term [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages]] are impossible, we easily see who those cowards are. They're STEM employers insisting on a French kiss from our government &amp; threatening to take the ball abroad if they don't get it.
|timestamp=5:10 AM ¡ Jan 15, 2020
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|timestamp=5:15 AM ¡ Jan 15, 2020
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872751875977217
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So here’s our choice.
 
Either:  
 
A) Stop whining and pay US STEM costs for some of the best and most irreverent mavericks in the world.
 
B) Shut down the programs that can’t compete.
 
C) Prepare to have PRC work its way into every corner of US R&amp;D by supplying our workforce.
 
🙏
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong.
 
A) We the US are GREAT at science.
 
B) Workers are mislabeled as students/trainees.
 
C) We underfund research.
 
D) China sends workers valued by Unis as they not as free or expensive as our own people.
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|name=Scott Linthorst
|usernameurl=https://x.com/dutchpancake
|username=dutchpancake
|content=Are you suggesting that US universities should have had fewer STEM doctoral candidates in total, or that they should have excluded foreign nationals, or only foreign nationals from a country with an “incompatible form of government?” 1/x
|timestamp=7:23 AM ¡ Mar 25, 2020
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|timestamp=5:55 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2020
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|content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at @NSF and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids.
|timestamp=5:55 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom &amp; irreverence based education. Our edge is our middle finger and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy.
|timestamp=5:55 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2020
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|timestamp=5:55 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Here’s the thing: I think this is all proxy speak. I don’t think any of this is real. No one is making real sense.
 
We‘re simply repeating incantations to each other. This isn’t science or normal public health. This is what you do when you are pretending too hard to be competent.
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I didn’t follow “Flatten the curve!”
 
I can’t grasp the mask instructions.
 
I don’t grok “Herd Immunity.”
 
I don’t follow the “It’s not the Wuhan Lab!” logic.
 
I don’t get the vaccine target dates.
 
NB: I also didn’t get “'''The great Moderation'''”, NAFTA or “[[Labor Shortages|The STEM Labor Shortage]]”.
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|name=CNN Breaking News
|usernameurl=https://x.com/cnnbrk
|username=cnnbrk
|content=The CDC has released six "decision trees" aimed at helping businesses, communities, schools, camps, day cares and mass transit decide on whether it's safe to reopen
https://www.cnn.com/webview/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-05-14-20#h_621046cd0ac22fb4e65953265da78130
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|timestamp=10:20 PM ¡ May 14, 2020
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|timestamp=3:33 AM ¡ May 15, 2020
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|timestamp=3:33 AM ¡ May 15, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=America: Up to 1/2 of your STEM workforce is imported from four of the biggest military spending nations in Asia so that your own wealthy don’t have to engage in wage negotiation with American Scientists.
 
But by all means, let’s focus on this as if we aren’t giving it all away.
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|name=Natasha Bertrand
|usernameurl=https://x.com/NatashaBertrand
|username=NatashaBertrand
|content=SCOOP/BREAKING NEWS: The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks, officials directly familiar with the matter said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855
|timestamp=8:30 PM ¡ Dec 17, 2020
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|timestamp=6:10 AM ¡ Dec 18, 2020
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1339994494280691714
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I still just marvel at how complete &amp; beautiful the multi-decade lies are.
 
It would never occur to me that you could shout about the danger &amp; madness of these things from an account and podcast of this size in front of this many journalists and the lies just remain. Perfection.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1339994492208730117
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We have been faking a continuous unrelenting labor shortage of Scientists and Engineers since Sputnik. We replaced our own genius based research system with a cheap labor system. We give everything away to the CCP so we don’t have to pay market price to scientific families.
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|name=Eigenbros
|usernameurl=https://x.com/eigenbros
|username=eigenbros
|content=Thanks for opening my eyes to this artificially constructed shortage of american STEM students, Eric. As a younger guy who didn't experience the history, I've never heard anyone else ever talk about this (real life or media)
|timestamp=4:37 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2020
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|timestamp=6:02 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2020
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1339994493630574592
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And despite decades of work, no mainstream news desk can cover and stay on this bizarre story. All the books, peer reviewed papers and conferences on this issue later...and the big enormous lie continues.
 
[[Labor Shortages|There is no such thing as a long term labor shortage in a market economy.]]
|timestamp=6:02 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2020
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|timestamp=6:02 PM ¡ Dec 18, 2020
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=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Prof. Norm Matloff was one of a tiny group of Left leaning patriots who led the fight against the hollowing out of American science and technology.
 
This is one hero of mine saluting another from a movement whose story has never been written.
 
We tried. We failed. But we fought.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/matloff/status/1350991351417090052
|name=Norm Matloff
|usernameurl=https://x.com/matloff
|username=matloff
|content=She was the first writer in the mainstream press to expose abuse of the [[H-1B Visa|H-1B work visa]], long before bipartisan recognition of the problems. See this article quoting @EricRWeinstein https://www.sharonlbegley.com/scientists-engineers-will-work-4-food
|timestamp=1:20 AM ¡ Jan 18, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1350993514121850880
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=One of many journalists to wake up to the idea that [[Labor Shortages|the US STEM shortage is an employer hoax]]...but she was open &amp; honest that she had been played. And she may have been first in MSM to call Bullshit.
 
She was very kind to me for opening her eyes.
 
I admire her integrity greatly.
https://x.com/dabeard/status/dabeard/status/1350967115528994817
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|content=Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff &amp; Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”
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|content=“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1382349287284117507
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is what [[Universal Institutional Betrayal|institutional betrayal]] looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.
 
It’s COVID pronouncements. Or [[String Theory]]. Or [[CPI]] revisions. Or “[[Labor Shortages]]”. Or fast-track trade treaties:
 
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|timestamp=3:05 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2021
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|timestamp=3:05 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386365397285306369
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If I had to predict what will happen, I’d guess that the system will come to the mild conclusion that it needs better conflict reporting.  And it will reclassify all of this as ‘normal’ except a few outlying cases. Then there might be a bit of scapegoating.
 
Just a guess.
|thread=
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386364097424285696
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=35 years after [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@nsf]] “Policy Research and Analysis” conspired w/ [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] [[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)|Government University Research Roundtable]] to sell out STEM-America.
 
I’ve been on this over 30 years. Is it finally happening? I doubt it.
 
Why? B/C it’s the *entire* STEM labor system.
 
https://www.newsweek.com/over-500-us-scientists-under-investigation-being-compromised-china-1586074
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|timestamp=4:58 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1386364098426806272
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=And here is a prediction. After we gut all of our advanced math and science, we are going to have a huge employer sponsored push to flood STEM markets with workers from abroad who were not subjected to “Diversity and Inclusion(tm)” re-education. Genius.
 
https://archive.is/DzF2B#selection-75.0-75.99
|timestamp=4:58 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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|timestamp=5:04 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1390418690001182720
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What the US may need most is what employers will consider a deep and crippling 50 year [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]].
 
Bring on these scary [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]].[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean strong families. [[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean inclusion &amp; diversity *organically*.
 
[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean happiness.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1390416885980614656
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Labor Shortages|There is no such thing in economics as a “labor shortage” for a large market economy with a wage mechanism]].
 
You may thus gauge your media, think tanks, economics departments, political parties, corporations etc. by whether they discuss “labor shortages”:
 
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|timestamp=9:23 PM ¡ May 6, 2021
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|timestamp=9:30 PM ¡ May 6, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1391744811078602752
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Kayfabrication]] of the US Senate &amp; economics.
 
Fiat money, [[String Theory|String Thy]], [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]], COVID origin, CRT, 2wks to ‘Flatten the Curve’, etc. I don’t think people take me seriously that it’s now everywhere.
 
But that is the claim: Lack of growth led to [[Kayfabe]] becoming universal.
|quote=
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|nameurl=https://x.com/ordinarytimemag/status/1391709610336309250
|name=Ordinary Times
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ordinarytimemag
|username=ordinarytimemag
|content="In the early 2000s, I was involved with one of the larger professional wrestling organizations" writes @Motoconomist "In 2018, I worked in the US Senate as an Economics Fellow...The crossover between politics and professional wrestling is quite real"
https://ordinary-times.com/2021/05/10/professional-wrestling-is-more-real-than-politics/
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|timestamp=11:00 AM ¡ May 10, 2021
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|timestamp=1:19 PM ¡ May 10, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1395536790870577152
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=For those of you new to this account, [[Labor Shortages|long term Labor Shortages don’t exist in large market economies with a wage mechanism]].
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1395536381561081861
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Underrated tweet.
 
[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] are the ultimate diversity and inclusion program.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/einfreakinstein/status/1395507254124716034
|name=🤬~Einfreakinstein™️~🇺🇸
|usernameurl=https://x.com/einfreakinstein
|username=einfreakinstein
|content=The Labor Shortage Is So Bad They Are Now Encouraging Long Haired, Freaky People To Apply.
|timestamp=10:30 PM ¡ May 20, 2021
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|timestamp=12:26 AM ¡ May 21, 2021
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|timestamp=12:27 AM ¡ May 21, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1400637775439753220
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Silents/Boomers running out of time to return wealth siphoned by jacking tuition, eliminating mandatory retirement, making student debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, declaring [[Labor Shortages|phony labor shortages in a mkt economy w/ a wage mechanism]], lying about NAFTA wealth transfer impact.
|quote=
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|nameurl=https://x.com/wealth/status/1400476286359908363
|name=Bloomberg Wealth
|usernameurl=https://x.com/wealth
|username= wealth
|content=A post-Covid economic boom may be the last opportunity for millennials to build wealth before heading off into retirement
 
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-millennials-are-running-out-of-time/
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|timestamp=3:35 PM ¡ Jun 3, 2021
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|timestamp=2:17 AM ¡ Jun 4, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1411873158664101888
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There is no such thing as a [[Labor Shortages|long term STEM labor shortage]] in the United States faced by technical employers:
 
https://x.com/seyitaylor/status/1411790447815577600/video/1
|timestamp=2:22 AM ¡ Jul 5, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: take care of the innovators you task to make you wealthy &amp; secure. Particularly the heterodox leaders that won’t always get along with others. Then get out of the way w the social engineering. Share the STEM benefits with your NATO allies before giving them to your rivals.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Then listen closely.
 
A) You stop giving CEO’s an ear when they whine about [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages]]. Cut off the visas.
 
B) You *spend* on STEM R&amp;D. Sky-High Compensation w High Standards.
 
C) You purge *everything* that says “Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion” anywhere close to a STEM kid.
 
https://x.com/steve10mo1966/status/1415036117187969029
|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=D) Kick the CCP out of US labs. Make them do their own scientific research, as to do it well requires freedom. Force CCP towards freedom through science &amp; STEM rather than letting them pick the fruits of our freedom to challenge and question orthodoxy.
 
E) Hire our own heterodox.
|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=F) Incentivize the leadership of our most critical institutions to promote people who won’t play well with others who are captured by groupthink. Earmark money to promote those who won’t easily  get along with co-workers when their co-workers are standing in the way of progress.
|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114475099738117
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=More or less we have to kickstart the American dream. And to do that requires a [[True Elite|public spirited elite]].
 
We need to purge ourselves of our [[Extractive Elite|fake elite]]. We are coming to hate fake experts.
 
We need real ones who are well paid. By us. Not by some revolving door baksheesh arrangement.
|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But I was cheering when Blake said one income. Because raising kids is about the most important job in the world. And if we are going to get rich enough to do it we need innovators worried about their next family vacation, not how to find two adjunct positions in adjacent states.
|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|timestamp=1:02 AM ¡ Jul 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>too
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?
 
It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.
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|name=Roaring20s
|usernameurl=https://x.com/Dream_S14
|username=Dream_S14
|content=@EricRWeinstein was the first talking about Epstein being an intelligence “agent” (Mossad IIRC), that was a long time ago, his brother @BretWeinstein was the first to speak about the lab leak, a long time ago, both were labelled as crackpots, now both being shown to be accurate
|timestamp=3:40 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|timestamp=6:15 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community &amp; who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.
|timestamp=6:15 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415917993423360003
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.
|timestamp=6:15 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415917994308345858
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It’s tough getting things wrong over &amp; over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.
|timestamp=6:15 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415917995910524930
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.
 
But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.
|timestamp=6:15 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|timestamp=6:18 AM ¡ Jul 16, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Or to turn it around:
 
There is a family shortage.</br>
A home shortage.</br>
A political access shortage.</br>
A career shortage.</br>
An opportunity shortage.</br>
A fairness shortage.</br>
A logic shortage.</br>
An ethics shortage.</br>
A bargaining symmetry shortage.
 
Involved in a *compensation* shortage for STEM.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Labor Shortages|There is no engineer shortage.]]
 
Management and investors are gobbling the compensation needed to attrract engineers while attempting to flood markets from abroad by printing visas.
 
Interesting that this error in logic is impossible to remove. So simple, so wrong &amp; so lucrative.
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|name=Naval
|usernameurl=https://x.com/naval
|username=naval
|content=The engineer shortage won’t end until coding fluency is as common as literacy and numeracy.
|timestamp=8:58 PM ¡ Jul 29, 2021
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|timestamp=7:55 PM ¡ Aug 3, 2021
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|timestamp=8:01 PM ¡ Aug 3, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Standing by to hear once again how I just don’t get it from people in the @dnc more focused on carried interest tax exemptions, infinite work visas for non-existent labor shortages, and defunding the police while denying the cupidity of organized identity to replace labor unions.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In my experience @AnnCoulter is actually more genuinely left of center on our needing deep painful labor shortages that bring employers to their knees at the bargaining table rather than the Visa trough, than the fake Left we call the @DNC. Anti-war is another example of this.
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|name=The USA Singers
|usernameurl=https://x.com/TheUSASingers
|username=TheUSASingers
|content=Is agreeing with Ann Coulter one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
|timestamp=10:28 PM ¡ Aug 31, 2021
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|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433064517689229313
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If the genuine left is about working families and the dignity of labor, then we old labor progressives have to admit the conversation on working families shifted towards the Right. Why? Because the @DNC seems uncomfortable with National interests (jingoism!) and Family above all.
|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433064518662324229
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I have been in rooms with @JDVance1 @bgmasters or @peterthiel where the entire focus is hours spent trying to figure out plans to help US working families make the markets work for them. I can’t get that quality of conversation on the Left. And I’m sometimes the only Democrat.
|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433064519555686400
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=You may despise @TuckerCarlson if you are on the Left. But in private, he focuses on US working families. When we on the nominal Left now hear “US working families” we start in like we don’t know our own history.  “Why US?” “Why Working?” “Why Families?”
 
We walked off our post.
|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1433064520495161348
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The Left abandoned the Left. The Right is in the process of taking over our best abandoned real estate. Time to wake up.
 
Anti-war. Pro-dignity of labor. Pro family. Pro-Patriotism. Anti-censorship. Anti-totalitarian. Pro-freedom. Anti-authoritarian.
 
That’s the core Real Left.
|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|timestamp=1:49 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now back to your regularly scheduled jokes about Contrarian University of North Texas…
 
Thanks for hearing me out on this periodically. I don’t know what to do to make this interesting and obvious. It’s destroying our future.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454117300957679617
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The US Academic Scam: “We need to find Americans smart enough to do Nobel level science and dumb enough not to realize that we will permanently artificially glut markets so that they will have zero leverage against whatever we, their Silent &amp; Boomer masters, want to do to them.”
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|nameurl=https://x.com/albrgr/status/1451588230638227463
|name=Alexander Berger
|usernameurl=https://x.com/albrgr
|username=albrgr
|content=Oof https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f159298.pdf
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|timestamp=4:36 PM ¡ Oct 22, 2021
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|timestamp=4:05 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454119107331194886
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Labor Shortages|The STEM shortage has been a total myth and a scam.]] It is an employer based gutting of America’s future to serve a dying cohort of people who bizarrely have zero interest in what they leave behind as a legacy.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=1/ HAVE THE BABY BOOMERS TAKEN COMPLETE CONTROL OF OUR US RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES?
 
A) What is the most prestigious US university to be headed by a member of Generation X or a Millennial?
 
B) Other than UC Berkeley, name any TOP Tier US research university *not* headed by a Boomer.
|timestamp=1:38 AM ¡ Mar 4, 2019
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|timestamp=4:13 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Remember this odd fact: almost every graph of changes in universities over time involving tuition, faculty, time to degree, jobs, etc tells exactly the same story. Choose any university. Any measure of one generation extracting money from its descendants by destroying its future:
|quote=
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1100488868997054466
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Should @SamHarrisOrg &amp; I talk about the Boomers and their original &amp; bold approach to stewardship of education, research and our world class universities?
 
How about how Student Debt was reclassified in 2005 to keep kids from fleeing this experimental approach through bankruptcy?
|timestamp=8:12 PM ¡ Feb 26, 2019
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|timestamp=4:18 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454122173359026176
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If I am correct there are now generations of discoveries by hundreds of STEM folks that were lost because they threatened their older masters or which bear the names of the masters with the scientist who did the original work cast out of the system. We disappeared STEM’s best.
|timestamp=4:25 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1454123365426335746
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So @elonmusk, bitcoiners, crypto folks, any interest? Every year we wait, what we built degrades further &amp; further into madness. Let’s create wealthy scientists who can tell us all to fuck off when we incentivize them to do the wrong thing in science &amp; rigorous education. #EndDEI
|timestamp=4:30 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|timestamp=4:33 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>STEM
|thread=
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The research university system would start to collapse. And we would at last be forced to conclude that using PRC labor to try to intimidate America’s STEW force into accepting *scraps* to enrich everyone else is probably about the dumbest thing we do as a nation.
 
Close to it.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/WSJecon/status/1455550403643330563
|name=Real Time Economics
|usernameurl=https://x.com/WSJecon
|username=WSJecon
|content=American universities and research institutes say the U.S.’s dominance in science and technology could be undermined by toughened U.S. visa requirements that are squeezing the flow of talent from China.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/visa-restrictions-on-chinese-students-endanger-u-s-innovation-edge-universities-say-11635856001
|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1455595056606302209
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is a market. Let’s get this much needed pain to our universities/STEM employers. That’s how this works. Our STEM employers need pain to stop lying &amp; to stop helping our strategic rivals play us like a fiddle. How do we get them as much pain as we can, as quickly as possible?
|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1455595057780703236
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Scientists are central to a modern nation on every level. Only a 3rd rate kleptocracy chisels on compensation and insulation of STEM professionals. The deliberate use by NSF of PRC labor (student and otherwise) to hold down US wages is an advanced form of academic madness.
|timestamp=5:58 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|timestamp=5:59 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378074277122050
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you won’t listen to the above and won’t honor the traditional agreements of old, let us charge you for science. Give us the IP protection for research so we aren’t your domestic servants. You will soon learn you had the world’s best deal.
 
Is there no one at all who gets this?
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378063367688193
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=For F’s sake. The federal government has totally breached its tacit understanding with our US STEM community. We’re not your domestic help. Thank god someone is stepping in. Maybe @elonmusk will build an SSC replacement. I am frustrated that these people don’t do MORE in STEM.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/thehill/status/1461339202579226624
|name=The Hill
|usernameurl=https://x.com/thehill
|username=thehill
|content=Sen. Bernie Sanders: "It is not acceptable that the two wealthiest people in this country, Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos, take control of our space efforts to return to the Moon, [...]This is not something for two billionaires to be directing."
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|timestamp=2:23 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378064986738691
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=How about giving America’s own scientists and engineers the massive sticky gooey portion of the pie they have built for everyone else? Instead we deny them the ability to commercialize discoveries at the same time as we breach the spirit of [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|the “Endless Frontier” agreement]].
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378066031144960
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=You’re a senator @BernieSanders. I voted for you once.
 
Even Soviets didn’t target their own scientists. How about we pay our labor rather than calling it “training” &amp; calling our workers, “workers” rather than “students”? Oddly, you aren’t even a socialist standing for workers.
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378068283473922
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I am quite honesty frustrated that Elon, Bezos and company are not using this wealth to save us…from you and your colleagues driving  our STEM pipeline off a Cliff with your legislative acts. But at least they are building. Not as well as we used to build. But they might awaken.
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461378073190825991
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Will you? There’s a difference between being frustrated with the absurdity of this inequality and being envious. Both are natural and understandable. But many of us want better inequality. You seem to be envious. Don’t mix your envy with STEM. Fix the above legislation instead.
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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“I won’t make you pregnant.”
 
“Two weeks to flatten the curve.”
 
“NAFTA is a rising tide lifting all ships.”
 
[[Labor Shortages|“US STEM employers are facing a deep labor shortage.”]]
 
“Inflation is transient.”
 
[[CPI|“CPI is a measure of the COL.”]]
 
“Iraq has WMD.”
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|name=Sam Altman
|usernameurl=https://x.com/sama
|username=sama
|content=genuinely curious:
 
the fed has smart people. how were they so wrong about inflation being transient, when it seemed so obvious to most people that it wasn't going to be?
|timestamp=8:23 PM ¡ Feb 17, 2022
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|timestamp=12:47 PM ¡ Feb 18, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1508592380080840705
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=One reason that tech executives are so wealthy is that they lie about [[Labor Shortages|shortages]] to get government to flood their specific labor markets, and so don’t have to make their STEM workers truly wealthy. They make STEM workers weak instead.
 
I wish it weren’t true. But it is what it is.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/KaminskiMK/status/1508435307489812486
|name=Matthew Kaminski
|usernameurl=https://x.com/KaminskiMK
|username=KaminskiMK
|content=Eric Schmidt filled the WH science office with allies -- and picked up their salaries
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712 via @politico
|timestamp=1:26 PM ¡ Mar 28, 2022
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|timestamp=11:50 PM ¡ Mar 28, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let’s stop this [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] dead in its tracks. Let’s not print visas. It’s time to recognize workers are suffering from a *share shortage*. We need to print shares not visas and add them to compensation packages.
 
Bingo! Look at that: totally fictitious  problem solved. 🙏
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I feel gaslit when grown-ups talk about [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages in market economies w wage mechanisms]].
 
It’s basically an admission that capitalism is meant as a TRICK where workers can’t benefit from markets.
 
Let’s talk about the ongoing equities shortage &amp; printing shares for workers.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/1560574041588645888
|name=Steve Rattner
|usernameurl=https://x.com/SteveRattner
|username=SteveRattner
|content=Joining @Morning_Joe in a few to discuss the ongoing labor shortage and inflation. Where are America’s workers?
|timestamp=10:27 AM ¡ Aug 19, 2022
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|timestamp=3:12 AM ¡ Aug 20, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=You see, longterm labor shortages don’t exist in large market economies.
 
But the news media counts on workers being too dumb to understand the wage mechanism. So everyone in media pretends to believe in labor shortages. Like they were jackalopes.
 
Let’s print shares &amp; not visas.
|timestamp=3:16 AM ¡ Aug 20, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let’s talk about “equities shortages” which are no more real than “labor shortages”. That way every S.O.B. who whines about a labor shortage will hear: “Oh. It’s because of the Stock Share Shortage. You just have to print new shares of your company to get your workers energized.”
|timestamp=3:19 AM ¡ Aug 20, 2022
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|timestamp=3:23 AM ¡ Aug 20, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570820249213345793
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don’t think either party wants to hear what I’d have to say.
 
Immigration to America was the greatest thing that ever happened to my family. Everyone who wants to come should try. I WISH we could make that miracle happen for everyone.
 
We simply CAN’T without losing our nation.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If someone wants to fly me to the border I’m happy to go. I may be highly xenophilic, but I am more restrictionist than both parties so it is likely unnecessary.
 
I don’t believe in [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]] in market economies and I don’t believe in “undocumented citizens.”
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|nameurl=https://x.com/ballen63/status/1570807660752281607
|name=Blaise Allen
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ballen63
|username=ballen63
|content=I respect your opinion a lot, but I highly recommend you visit the border, unlike our VP. This is a protest. Many towns on the border have had more people crossing than live there. How do you suggest calling attention to this?
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|timestamp=4:52 PM ¡ Sep 16, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570817853326258176
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I believe in strong borders, deporting those who come illegally, and various ugly things that don’t play well optically but are needed to have a diverse market based free society that can welcome the persecuted, family members, visitors/friends and the extraordinary individual.
|timestamp=4:52 PM ¡ Sep 16, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1570817855129792512
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=My motto is something like: show me a person with a simple inspiring immigration message and I’ll show you the absolute misery it will create.
 
Show me a person with an ethical approach to immigration that actually works and I’ll show you optical ugliness that will be demonized.
|timestamp=4:52 PM ¡ Sep 16, 2022
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|timestamp=5:01 PM ¡ Sep 16, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I met this rot first in [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
 
Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”
 
Then in [[Labor Shortages|“Scientific Manpower Theory”]]
 
To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.
 
Take back science, by any means necessary. It is now a matter of survival:
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|timestamp=5:52 PM ¡ Oct 10, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589783407156137984
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If I have 1 piece of advice: Vote for whoever in Congress is most likely to hold PUBLIC hearings on
 
COVID Origins</br>
[[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein Connection to IC]]</br>
UFOs</br>
[[CPI|CPI as Tax Increase/SS Reduction]]</br>
[[Labor Shortages|Fake Labor Shortages]]</br>
DHS meddling in Social Media</br>
Etc.
 
I don’t believe the US is still on the ballot.
|timestamp=12:54 AM ¡ Nov 8, 2022
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=== 2023 ===
=== 2023 ===


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: China already knows what we are doing by and large. American science is built on a model: they supply highly reliable workers, we supply our asymmetric scientific advantages born of our freedom. Don’t hate the PRC and their students. The US is always giving away the store.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1622656902948884480
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“Graduate Students in STEM” is mostly a euphemism for America’s dirt cheap scientific workforce. Everyone in Science knows this by the way &amp; admits it behind closed doors. Everyone.
 
[We lie in public just to save millions FYI.]
 
Now let’s talk about that overflight by a balloon.
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|timestamp=6:04 PM ¡ Feb 6, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or Strings. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc.
 
I want too. But what I want is mostly just a desire to get the BS out of physics so we can get back to succeeding.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441014981033984
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now I feel completely alone.
 
I want our wanting out of this story. I have a huge dog in this fight. I spend every day fighting my own human desire for GU to be proven correct.
 
I believe this is how String Theorists stopped being scientists.
 
I just want our data &amp; the physics.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1666303048631590914
|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
|usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh
|username=skdh
|content=I want this to be real.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
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|timestamp=4:36 AM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441031158730752
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441034140725251
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441040314748928
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441043347374080
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441045926891520
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies.
 
I fight like hell to promote my theory. But I’d sign on to another to know the truth if I was wrong.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441048753836033
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc.
 
To go beyond GR, let’s be scientists &amp; get NatSec out of our data first. Where is our data pruned of space opera disinformation and cultic religiosity?
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441052369158145
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What I want to know:
 
Why was the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Amendment]] passed?
 
Why did '''NSF''' fake a [[Labor Shortages|labor shortage]] in our MARKET economy destroying American STEM labor markets?
 
What stopped the [[General Relativity|Golden Age Of General Relativity]]?
 
Why was the SSC really cancelled?
 
[[String Theory|StringTheory]] &amp; STAGNATION: WTF?
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441055531663362
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about?
 
Why are we not stopping to QUESTION [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] after 70 years of public *FAILURE* inspired by Babson-Behnson patronage of RIAS, the Institute of Field Physics and the precursor to Lockheed?
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441058442674176
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441060976062464
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of  1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle?
 
[[Quantum Gravity]] is fake and works to stop actual physics.
 
There. I said it. Now let’s talk.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441063752671232
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing  theories of physics.”
 
Let’s finally get serious about this whacky subject? Thanks. 🙏
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1667085711617540096
|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
|usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh
|username=skdh
|content=I swear I didn't write my tweet to make you feel alone and I'm genuinely sorry if that was the result. That said, I think it's better to acknowledge one's hopes and desires than to pretend they don't exist and thereby overestimate one's own rationality.
|timestamp=8:26 AM ¡ Jun 9, 2023
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|timestamp=3:40 PM ¡ Jun 9, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Which is why we got:
 
Low Energy Spacetime Supersymmetry
 
Superlative Index Numbers replacing the Konus Index
 
Contradictory directives on Masks
 
'''“The Great Moderation”''' before 2008
 
[[Labor Shortages|Labor Shortages claimed in Market Economies]]
 
Vioxx
 
Anti-Biological Redefinitions of Gender
 
[[Peer Review|The Reproducibility Crisis in Peer Reviewed Literature]]
 
Citation Cartels
 
An admonition to ask no questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology
 
The Death of Sociobiology at the hands of Marxists
 
40 yrs of modern [[String Theory]]
 
70 years of [[Quantum Gravity]]
 
The food pyramid
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|nameurl=https://x.com/ggronvall/status/1677650019724193793
|name=Gigi Gronvall
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ggronvall
|username=ggronvall
|content=For people not in the scientific world: “debate” is not something that generally happens. Instead, scientists give talks, present posters at conferences, and publish, all of which offer opportunities for peer review, critiques, and discussion of the data or its interpretation.
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=== 2024 ===
=== 2024 ===


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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It’s been up for about a quarter of a century:
 
https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[Labor Shortages|There is no such thing as a labor shortage in a large market economy]]. This is due to a concept called the [[Wage Mechanism|wage mechanism]]. There are two curves called supply and demand which intersect at a point that determines the wage.
 
You are probably confusing this with a centrally planned economy.  We discussed this in my office in Littauer. We were colleagues in the same dept. You spoke in the seminar of the program I co-founded with Richard Freeman about women in Science. It was called the science and engineering workforce project. SEWP. At NBER?
 
You were Harvard’s President.
 
It was a long time ago.
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|name=Lawrence Summers
|usernameurl=https://x.com/LHSummers
|username=LHSummers
|content=I think every sensible American thinks we need to do more to secure our border. But if you're talking about deporting millions of people, that is an invitation to labor shortage and bottlenecks. I hope Trump will get the message from this election and adjust his program so that it is not inflationary. I certainly hope that if his program is inflationary, it will not be accommodated by the Federal Reserve.
 
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|timestamp=1:29 PM ¡ Nov 14, 2024
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|timestamp=12:49 AM ¡ Nov 15, 2024
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1857224314241867851
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Here is the paper we discussed at NBER. The first line is literally this:
 
[[Labor Shortages|“Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies.”]]
 
You said “Obviously.”
 
We last discussed it in Arizona. October 24, 2019 when we both spoke. Am I imagining this Larry?
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=== 2025 ===
 
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Michael Shermer: you are quite incautious about what I say. Your world is dominated by careful scientists and wild eyed conspiracy theorists. The idea of wild eyed scientists (e.g. Francis Collins, Gerald Bull, Peter Daszak, Edward Teller) and careful conspiracy theorists (e.g. Seymour Hersh, William Davidon, Jack Raper, Gary Webb, etc) doesn’t occur to you nearly enough.
 
Roughly speaking I claimed that the U.S. government was, at a minimum, faking UFOs  and that there is ample evidence that we FAKE exactly such things (which I documented) and destroy our own people’s sanity, reputations, careers and lives on a regular basis playing the “That sounds like a conspiracy theory!!” game.
 
Which is *exactly* what just happened in UFO land. We admitted we did what I claimed we were likely doing when I was on Rogan.
 
And what I claim about our failed 40 year “[[Quantum Gravity]]” and “[[String Theory]]” program is simply that it completely disabled a potentially dangerous activity: successfully discovering and sharing the power of new physics in open universities with foreign nationals of rival nations well beyond the Manhattan Project era nuclear physics. Is that deliberate? It sure as hell would be a lot less suspicious if we ever had the string theorist/quantum gravity people at the same conference head to head with their rivals and detractors. Wouldn’t it?
 
I’m sorry this seems crazy to you. But the U.S. government makes shit up. It’s called “Covert Operations”. In laymen’s terms: we conspire to gaslight our own people. And we do it a lot around national security.
 
Now would you please consider that you are carrying water for the very people that do this particularly vile form of reputational wet work? Is that what you want to do??
 
Enough.
 
I was writing about the danger of a manipulated [[CPI]] in 1996 (now admitted). The fake [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] [[Labor Shortages|labor shortage]] (now discredited) in the 1980s. Biden’s cognitive crisis for all 4 years of his presidency (now known to all). The fake racism charges against the Wuhan Lab leak theory (ahem).
 
Etc. See the pattern?
 
Michael: you do not get to do this cheaply. You live in a simplified world of good rational people and bad madmen. I live in a different world and the scourge of that world is the shitty debunker making fun of the scientists with the courage to say “Uh, ya know the mainstream position just doesn’t add up.”
 
Conspiracy is everywhere. And those of us who are disciplined in talking about them do not need you telling us what is possible based on heuristics.
 
I don’t think our secret federal scientists are in possession of the final theory at all. I have never said “We have anti-gravity.”
 
Stop stirring the pot. You are not the amazing Randi and I am not a spoon bender. I debunk debunkers. Deal with that first.
 
If you want to go head to head with my track record, let me know. I would LOVE that.
 
If not: be more careful.
 
Like a scientist. Thanks.
 
No hard feelings.
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|username=michaelshermer
|content=Dear @EricRWeinstein The history of technology strongly indicates that UAP-type "anti-gravity" tech cannot be Earthly. Here's my explanation of why from my forthcoming book Truth: What it is, How to Find it, Why it Still Matters:
 
An alternative to ordinary explanations for UAP sightings is that they represent Russian or Chinese assets, drones, spy planes, or some related but as yet unknown (to us) technology capable of speeds and turns that seemingly defy all known physics and aerodynamics. Pilots and observers describe “multiple anomalous aerial vehicles” accelerating from 80,000 feet down to sea level in seconds, or making instantaneous turns and even sudden stops, or shooting off horizontally at hypersonic speed, breaking the sound barrier but not making a sonic boom, which should be impossible, not to mention that it would kill the pilots instantly. And these vehicles appear to be able to do so with no apparent jet engine or visible exhaust plume, suggesting that they’re using some anti-gravity technology unavailable to even the most advanced experimental programs worked on at DARPA. When 60 Minutes’ correspondent Bill Whitaker asked former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves, who had seen with his own eyes UAPs buzzing around Virginia Beach in 2014, “could it be Russian or Chinese technology?” Graves responded “I don’t see why not,” adding that “if these were tactical jets from another country that were hangin’ out up there, it would be a massive issue.”  Top Gun navy pilot and commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz, David Fravor, told 60 Minutes “I don’t know who’s building it, who’s got the technology, who’s got the brains. But there’s something out there that was better than our airplane.”
 
The hypothesis that the objects are terrestrial and developed by some other nation or corporation, or some genius working in isolation, is highly unlikely, given what we know about the evolution of technological innovation, which is cumulative from the past. In his seminal work The Evolution of Technology, the historian George Basalla busts the myth of the inventor working in isolation, dreaming up new and innovative technologies out of sheer creative genius (the ping of the light bulb flashing brilliantly in the mind). All technologies, Basalla demonstrates, are developed out of either pre-existing artifacts (artificial objects) or already existing naturfacts (organic objects): “Any new thing that appears in the made world is based on some object already in existence,” he explains.  But some artifact had to be first—an invention that comes from no other invention, ex nihilo as it were. If this is the case then that artifact, Basalla shows, likely came from a naturfact. (Barbed wire is a famous example. Its inventor, Michael Kelly, in 1868 explained: “My invention [imparts] to fences of wire a character approximating to that of a thorn-hedge. I prefer to designate the fence so produced as a thorny fence.” )
 
In How Innovation Works,  Matt Ridley demonstrates through numerous examples that innovation is an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that is a result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is different from invention, Ridley argues, because “it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people that makes innovation possible.” Innovation, he continues, “is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, not a matter of lonely genius. It is gradual, serendipitous, recombinant, inexorable, contagious, experimental and unpredictable. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time.” Examples include steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertilizer, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, and hyperloop tubes.
 
It is simply not possible that some nation, corporation, or lone individual—no matter how smart and creative—could have invented and innovated new physics and aerodynamics to create an aircraft of any sort that could be, essentially, centuries ahead of all known present technologies. That is not how innovation works. It would be as if the United States were using rotary phones while the Russians or Chinese had smart phones, or we were flying biplanes while they were flying stealth fighter jets, or we were sending letters and memos via fax machine while they were emailing files via the Internet, or we were still experimenting with captured German V-2 rockets while they were testing SpaceX-level rocketry. Impossible. We would know about all the steps leading to such technological wizardry.
 
Consider the Manhattan Project, arguably the most secretive program in US history to date, leading to the successful development of atomic bombs in 1945. The Russians had an atomic bomb by 1949. How? They stole our plans through a German theoretical physicist and spy named Klaus Fuchs. Modern tech companies like Apple, Google, Intel, and Microsoft are notoriously secretive about their inventions, forcing employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements (NDEs), enforcing extensive security protocols for their offices, and protecting intellectual property rights through countless lawsuits. And yet…all of our computers, smart phones, computer chips, and software programs are essentially the same, or at least in close parallel development. Countries and companies steal, copy, back engineer, and innovate each other’s ideas and technologies, leaving no one company or country very far ahead or behind any other.
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|content=Grok believes in [[Labor Shortages|long-term labor shortages in market economies with wage mechanisms]].
 
Or rather @grok was trained on a corpus in which that was perseverated over reality.
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|content=[[The Cognitive Decline of President Joe Biden|Biden is sharp as a tack (anti-neuroscience).]]
 
COVID came from a wet market pangolin (anti biology).
 
[[CPI|The CPI is a Cost of Living measure (anti-mathematical economics).]]
 
All humans should be represented equally in all elite activities (anti-Evolution).
 
There is only one theory in fundamental physics (anti mathematics and physics).
 
[[Labor Shortages|We have labor shortages in STEM (Anti market economics).]]
 
Vaccines are absolutely  safe (anti-medicine).
 
Steel Buildings just collapse like that (anti structural engineering).
 
Etc.
 
That is bad enough. But somehow, we are willing to absolutely revoke the credentials of any expert who is not in on the fiction via this one crazy tool: reputational destruction.
 
Here is how it works.
 
Some collection of your government attached professional colleagues lose control of a cover story. That’s their problem. It shouldn’t be a “you problem”.
 
Francis Collins and Toni Fauci lost control of a virus cover story. Tough shit boys.
 
Prof Dale Jorgenson and Senators Moynihan and Packwood lost control of a CPI cost of living story.  Shouldn’t have cooked the books gentlemen.
 
The Military lost control of a FAKE UFO special access program. What were you thinking?
 
The Whitehouse installed a committee to replace a Parkinson’s president. And you want neuroscientists to lie on behalf of an unelected committee?
 
You wasted 40 years of physicist putting an end to the career of anyone who wouldn’t believe in Ed Witten as the quantum gravity fairy. And that makes the people who called it into crackpots?? Walk us through the logic.
 
You blew up the world financial system on a story called “The Great Moderation”. And this makes those of us who called it into charlatans? How exactly? Be specific.
 
We can’t afford to kill all our strongest minds, all the time on EVERY botched operation.
 
Let’s face facts. Our national interest folks suck at their jobs if they have to take down people smarter than them to do their work.
 
Period.
 
We can’t pollute every technical area for national interest. These people just aren’t very good or ethical. I’m sorry.
 
You can’t just pollute all technical fields. You are just bad at your jobs. And we aren’t going to cover for you out of modesty any more. You’ve just gotten too agreessixe.
 
You’re simply  preposterous.
 
We are better. You are worse. All you have over us is your cloak of covert authority. And that is it. That one thing.
 
Tough shit, gentlemen in the shadows.
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|content=We need a new concept, and I don’t know what to call it. [[Cognitive Poisioning by Mid Level National Security/National Interest]]. Or something. Anybody?
 
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|content=Essentially our national interest infrastructure appears to be wholesale dumping low level cognitive sludge into the public discourse absolutely everywhere. On TECHNICAL issues.
 
Who came up with this??
 
How do you expect to get away with it?
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