bad time for people with moderate intelligence.
I honestly don't think intelligence has a lot to do with it. I think it's more a question of education (type, more than amount) and adaptability (which is partly a function of wealth, that is, having a cushion to ramp up in a new field).
It's more luck and adaptability. There are some really smart people in the wrong industries - as the Fox host mentioned, think about bookstores. I actually loved some of the interviewer comments and how he was able to go big picture...
"Thank you for acknowledging reality" (after saying that these out of work drivers were not going to become software engineer
"The tech industry doesn't own the roads." (making the point that it's going to cause a lot of economic dislocation for workers and making the point that if you take away 4 million driving jobs and reduce the 30,000 traffic deaths per year, there will be some offset in "slow suicide" by oxycontin and cirrhosis of the liver).
"Nobody in my world cares about this at all. Nobody in 'rich person world' thinks about this."
I don't know Tucker Carlson, but he's an interesting character, based on his Wikipedia article
At the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carlson was booed for saying that the journalists at The New York Times care about accuracy.
On the Iraq war
I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. It's something I'll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who's smarter than I am, and I shouldn't have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I'm enraged by it, actually.
