IT'S TIME TO BUILD

If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you, and we need to get you into a position, an occupation, or a career where you can contribute to building.

We have top-end universities, yes, but with the capacity to teach only a microscopic percentage of the 4 million new 18-year-olds in the U.S. each year, or the 120 million new 18-year-olds in the world each year.

Tens of millions of laid off workers and their families and many millions of small businesses are in serious trouble right now, and we have no direct method to transfer them money without potentially disastrous delays.

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade.

The things we build in huge quantities—like computers and TVs—drop rapidly in price. The things we don’t—like housing, schools, and hospitals—skyrocket in price.