If you were not born into an elite family that can insert you into an elite institute providing elite alumni networks, you wouldn't even have any chance to fight for your expected success.
21 Feb 2024
Who Defeated Communism | The Ideal Power Structure against Human Nature
If the leader of an organisation has absolute power over its members, and the members are absolutely forbidden to question their leaders, this organisation is an evil cult, or a communist party.
16 Feb 2024
Why Bother to Appear “Professional”? | Resisting the increasing madness of employers in CV filtering
There is a myth in “career development”: a person should be determined for a career path when he or she was a preschool child, then devoutly and exclusively work for this singular goal in the years after.
14 Feb 2024
Astounding, but Honest | STEM Knowledge Bores Me
If the theoretical knowledge of a subject can be learnt on YouTube and its practical skills can only be acquired via internships, why should we pay the universities for studying it?
11 Feb 2024
Why we are NOT the first civilisation | With Nazca Lines as an example
I firmly believe that there used to be numerous civilisations, which were more advanced than ours, lost in the sand of history.
8 Feb 2024
The Pitfalls of Big Data in Social Sciences: Statistical Relations are NOT Always Causal Links
According to statistics, the more chocolate is consumed per person in a country, the more Nobel Prize Laureates there are per 1,000 citizens in this country. So, should the government encourage chocolate consumption for improving research and innovation ability?
5 Feb 2024
Look Beyond Numbers and Models | Why Economists Made False Predictions in the Past Three Years
Because economists only care about numbers, statistics and mathematical models. But human society is much more complex and perplex than numbers and formulas.
2 Feb 2024
Red Appeal: Why Poor Nations Tend to Choose Communist Party
In a society where most people are not adequately educated, people are enchanted by the idea of egalitarianism only. As such, the slogans of communist parties are naturally attractive to the public.
1 Feb 2024
Podcast: The ludicrous assessment of “leadership aptitude”
This is a short podcast accompanying an old post, The ludicrous assessment of “leadership aptitude”.
30 Jan 2024
Navigating the Complexity: Understanding the Rise of the AfD in German Politics
Understanding the AfD's rise in Germany requires exploring factors like societal fears, media influence, and reactions to government policies.
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