Well you can work on the problems or just work on having a nice life anyway, or some of both. Knowing about issues can help you protect yourself.
Encouraging intellectuals to have rationality and debate policies is my best idea for improving the world. To me, that’s pretty hopeful. Even just one really good advocate other than myself (the inventor of the idea) could potentially be quite effective.
Oh. Rewatching it I can see that. Transcribing it using subtitles:
Yeah, Arthur Anderson’s employees felt a range of emotions, from resentment to anxiety to a level of unbridled exuberance best described as “Price is right contestant who just won a Honda civic” And they were right to be concerned. Anderson being convicted of a felony meant they lost their accounting license which, for an accounting firm, is generally not great for business.
“meant they lost their accounting license” I guess from how he was talking about the employees before saying that it sounded to me like we were talking about employees, but the part about an accounting firm after makes it sound like it was talking about Anderson, the company, all along. I feel like its still kinda unclear, though saying it was talking about the business makes more sense. Is this a me issue? or is it unclear?
That’s true. Also I guess just cause I know theres a lot of bad things in the world doesn’t mean I know how they are bad and what kind of way they are bad. Like off the top of my head a company like Nestle, at least to my knowledge, gives me safe drinking water. The type of bad things I’ve heard about them is stuff related to slave labor and exploitation in third world countries (I haven’t verified any of that). I think that kind of knowledge of how a company is bad is different from knowing that a certain company puts a certain dangerous chemical in my food. That kind of bad thing/information is different?
What would a really good advocate consist of? Someone as smart as you? Or someone whos smart enough? Or just someone whos meh with ideas but is popular? Or a bit of both?
Very competent and knowledgeable about debate policies, plus something extra: especially energetic, smart, rich, charismatic, pretty, able to get a lot of social media followers, good at art, friends in high places, or some other advantage.