The Yarvin Interview

Not impressive questions by the interviewer. Which helps Yarvin. Does the interviewer think his job is to gasp in NPR-esque shock or ask substantial questions? I have so many questions - this CEO of America idea sounds ridiculous, mostly because - a country is not a company! A company can select and fire shit employees. What does a country do with all the shit citizens? We can't just throw them away. Also, a shit company can be abandoned by employees and investors. Can a country? Certainly not so easily. This premise is preposterous. Also, a company can focus on a narrow goal - creating a profitable product. Is that the function of a country? How well does Apple provide national defense? Build roads. Educate all the citizens. Provide social security? It does literally none of the above. 

Can he cite an actual country that provides a model of his type of proposed governance? Maybe there is a reason post-democracy that all dictatorships/CEOships fall into tyranny. Maybe Singapore? Do we see a lot of Americans moving to Singapore? Why not? Why not a charter city or charter state to test his model? Why do we need to do the entire country? Is China a model for what he's proposing? Does anyone actually find China a model for the "common good."

He cites FDR as a precedent as CEO of America. Wouldn't a much easier proposal simply be to abandon term limits? That's what got us FDR. We don't need to reorganize the entire political system.

And who selects the CEO? He doesn't even discuss it! What a ridiculous interview.