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 lightweight leaders governing heavyweight countries just like Dr. Trump used to rate aspiring entrepreneurs on The Apprentice and say, “YOU’RE FIRED!”
Politics, like any other industry or market, is subject to market failure and anti-competitive practices. Don’t apply anti-trust law just to Facebook and Google. Apply it at the source of electoral market failure by tearing down barriers to free market competition that keep more competent women leaders out of power. How can we let the free market work its magic in that least innovative of industries: politics and government leadership and policymaking?
For all you fans of unregulated free markets, the answer is to deregulate segregated sovereign elections and establish a borderless global free trading platform in COVID response and leadership selection. Let’s update and one-up Adam Smith with a Modest Proposal to end the sovereign subsidy for incompetent, viral virus-friendly tweeting by…
