From the article:

Reading this article felt like hearing someone describe plans to create a Jurassic Park. I suppose ya could but everyone knows that this does not end well.

What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41 Million to Find Out.

It is true that we desperately need alternatives to neoliberal economics — something I have pointed out repeatedly on my Substack. But these are not the proper institutions to foster these new ideas.

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The world right now is run by technocrats — the World Economic Forum, Davos, the Gates Foundation, W.H.O., and Greens/Democrats/Liberal/Labor Parties all operate from the belief that a ruling class of highly educated elites is entitled to govern because they will make the best decisions. And they have made a total mess of things. The world is now beset with skyrocketing inequality; corruption and capture; political polarization; chronic illness, pandemics, and death; and a move by all developed economies to emulate China with digital surveillance, censorship, and totalitarian state control. All of these horrible outcomes are a direct result of the technocrats taking power and not understanding either political philosophy nor the needs/interests of citizens.

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What we will get from this new $41 million project is Das Kapital for Technocrats. And we already see hints of this in the descriptions of how these institutions will approach the research question.

These institutions...are all so deeply ensconced in the technocrat mindset and the technocrat information bubble that they are completely incapable of understanding the problem and have no idea what the alternatives might be.

This project is asking the foxes to redesign the hen house in the name of reducing inequality amongst chickens.

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What we desperately need is a revolution to smash the technocracy into dust. The bougiecrats fear this more than anything else (which is why Trudeau is using storm troopers to crush the truckers on behalf of his bosses at the World Economic Forum). If one cares about the fact that the world is on the wrong track, the remedy is to set 8 billion people free, let them use their voice, get out of their way, and let them create from their own intuitive sense of wonder and purpose. The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency. And what these technocrats will propose instead is to micromanage the global population through behavioral economics and bio-fascism.