Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
&gt; It’s an indication that Yang is running a rather methodical, data-driven, science-happy campaign.<p>Being a (1) &quot;good grades&quot; person trying to (2) solve &quot;bad grades&quot; problems (like things the govt. does) and (3) having essentially no personal experience in &quot;bad grades&quot; problems is a recipe for disaster.<p>To keep this on topic to the forum, this cultural disconnect between good grades and bad grades society makes it really hard for giant tech companies to enter new markets.<p>In my personal experience, a clear example of this is Google Stadia, which is all good grades people who don&#x27;t really play games trying to make a product for bad grades people who play games all the time; or bad grades people who couldn&#x27;t work at Google but are talented in some other way so they work for a game studio.<p>It&#x27;s also why so many investors get sucked in by &quot;fraudsters.&quot; They have the intuitive notion that being in bad grades society makes you more effective at understanding the average person&#x27;s problems. But the interface between good and bad grades involves a lot of lying!<p>Andrew Yang is kind of a distilled example of this, talking about stuff that only people who lived in exclusively good grades society would believe is effective on the face of it. It&#x27;s not quite the same as being super rich versus super poor (the typical dichotomy), because many people are super rich and got bad grades and just don&#x27;t believe in the supremacy of technocracy as dearly as people who are its biggest beneficiaries.<p>The real problem is that when you&#x27;re so deep in the thick of good grades, it&#x27;s so extremely hard to open up your perspective. You think you&#x27;re entitled to make all the decisions, and you think wielding power safely is to do so while expressing photographed emotions between dispassionate and smiling.<p>Meet the Zuckerberg Robot Meme the Presidential Candidate. At least Mark Zuckerberg had the good sense to look at the Facebook data and his New Jersey ed-tech experiment realize how deeply unelectable (and unqualified) he is.