Few people realize that “retirement” years prior to serious age related cognitive decline is all that is left of Yeomen As Foundation of Scientific Revolution. Bosses are about exploitation of someone else’s exploration. Young people are so financially oppressed by the horrors of unaffordable family formation (eg mortgage-sized student loan debt they can’t escape even under bankruptcy) that their natural curiosity and tendency to question authority is crushed out of the box.
Tenure is supposed to make up for this, but by the time it’s achieved, the Esteemed Professor is too much A Defender of The Faith to question The Faith. While there are exceptions like E.O. Wilson, ie, “The Evolution of Eusociality”, they are as rare as Elon Musk’s.
This is only one reason I proposed privatizing the government with a citizen’s dividend and replacing the 16th Amendment with a tax on liquidation value of net assets at the long term treasury rate after seeing how the sausage was made.
So what does Ben Shapiro, a man who undoubtedly would call my proposed reform something straight out of Das Kapital if not Mein Kampf, say we should do about this last hope for scientific revolution (other than, perhaps ASI)?
