I find it an amusing question. So, as a thought exercise, I’m answering it here in an ongoing way.
I reserve the right to modify, nullify, contradict, and or otherwise dramatically change my position on these as my perspective evolves or they become less controversial.
- Panel presentations are a waste: there’s never enough time to take full advantage of all the in-depth expertise on the panel and at any given time, most of the panel is sitting quietly.
- Open borders & free trade has fewer unintended negative outcomes than policies restricting either. The vast majority of Americans are descendants of people who immigrated to the US illegally, or otherwise without the paperwork & abilities, these same people are expecting today’s poor and hungry to have. That’s un-American.
- Quality healthcare is so significant to our national security we should have a unified national strategic solution ensuring a path to fitness, health, and resilience for all Americans.
- Quality education is so significant to our national security we should subsidize the vast majority of tuition costs for community college and four-year state universities.
- Having more children has always been, and is still, better than fewer or none when success is measured on the selfishness of being cared about by others in old age.
- More people with stronger health and greater wealth equals more opportunities to solve really hard problems like global pollution. Therefore, if we want to solve really hard problems at the global scale, our initial focus should be on lifting the world out of poverty and ignorance.
- Pollution doesn’t know political or national borders, therefore, to have any meaningful, sustained impact, environmental change needs to be driven by private multi-national corporations. Pollution is a sign of poverty.
- Residential recycling efforts are more religion than responsibility. If our concerns about resource disposal malpractice were serious, there would be ongoing feedback loops and punishment for mishandling.
- Paper is cheap, plentiful, easy to create, easy to use, easy to re-use, easy to re-create (they sell kits in craft stores) for an infinite number of things. “Wasting trees” and “Please don’t print” and similar statements are more anti-creativity than responsible resource use.
- Nobody wants innovation – it’s expensive and unreliable. What they want is sustained competitive advantage.
- District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US. Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa must be proper US States, with Congressional representation, that they are not is un-American.
- Owning a gun signals a belief in being able to get away with murder. Decreasing law enforcements’ access to firearms is preferable to increasing citizens’ access.
- There are plenty of world views wholly independent of the current platforms of the two dominant US political parties.
- Minimum wage is more about stabilizing state and federal revenues & making bid/ask of the job market more efficient at the low end than it is about improving employees quality of life.
- Job security is the ability to get another job.
- Traditions exist to remind us of our ancestors’ poverty.
- Western Europe is mostly a museum.
- the Business Model Canvas is a fantastic tool for describing a business in a single page and a pretty good tool for discussing how businesses evolve. It’s a horrible tool for planning and developing new businesses.
- Most everything is Chindōgu.
- “First mover advantage” is a myth and “regression to the mean” is real.
- Offshoring is primarily about corporations avoiding US labor regulations and US tax rates. Any labor rate arbitrage is actually canceled out by the increased coordination costs and decreased throughput.