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The Big Short 2: Political Testosterone
Cure Deadly Management by Man-Children by Hiring Globally
A modest proposal for fans of REALLY free markets. As is clear from the images above, COVID19 has exposed the divorce between competent governance and geopolitical power. Germany excepted, the female-led COVID management competents are all geopolitical midgets, while the geopolitical giants — the USA, Brazil, Russia, India — are all led by hydroxi-popping or vaccine research-hacking alpha male narcissists. Testosterone and toxic governance are highly correlated: “A new study published by the World Economic Forum now confirms what many have suspected: “Being female-led has provided countries with an advantage in the current crisis….“Nearest neighbour analysis clearly confirms that when women-led countries are compared to countries similar to them along a range of characteristics, they have performed better, experiencing fewer cases as well as fewer deaths,” the study’s authors declared. “This is true whether we consider the nearest neighbour … or even five neighbours.” (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/01/week-in-patriarchy-women-lead-men?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail
This begs the question: how to broker a remarriage between largely female-led competent governance to dilute alpha male-led geopolitical weight? How do we get to grade…