Good heavens, and he didn't even get around to foreign policy, making no mention of assassination, torture, or infinite detention without trial.
I'm going to play devil's advocate and point out that the system does incentivize productivity - that is, it offers power to those who can produce the most, or the most innovative, products. It's true that Ivy League institutions churn out smart, loyal suits to staff these productive juggernauts once they get going, but "they system" still doesn't quite understand the magic that goes into getting them going, and so the startup world does exist, and it really is a full blown meritocracy (well, at least once you factor out information asymmetry particularly about finance, ownership, and the law).
So yes, the system is corrupt, but the people who are taking advantage of this corruption are, at least, normally not vetted by bloodline, but rather by the result of their actions. And this, perhaps, is the best we can hope for - and pray that these people have some morality (which is not selected for at all - the market seems perfectly willing to accept amorality that isn't illegal and which doesn't endanger profit).
>I'm going to play devil's advocate and point out that the system does incentivize productivity - that is, it offers power to those who can produce the most, or the most innovative, products.
Only to a certain degree -- if the money can't be made by scumming customers for example, or by subsidies, or by tens of other ways to tranfer funds from the population into some private company besides the direct exchange of good products for money.
I'm going to play devil's advocate and point out that the system does incentivize productivity - that is, it offers power to those who can produce the most, or the most innovative, products. It's true that Ivy League institutions churn out smart, loyal suits to staff these productive juggernauts once they get going, but "they system" still doesn't quite understand the magic that goes into getting them going, and so the startup world does exist, and it really is a full blown meritocracy (well, at least once you factor out information asymmetry particularly about finance, ownership, and the law).
So yes, the system is corrupt, but the people who are taking advantage of this corruption are, at least, normally not vetted by bloodline, but rather by the result of their actions. And this, perhaps, is the best we can hope for - and pray that these people have some morality (which is not selected for at all - the market seems perfectly willing to accept amorality that isn't illegal and which doesn't endanger profit).