1) 90 executives, $14,000 dollars... that's $1.2 million!
2) "Brexit and the election of President Trump are the symptoms of society’s preference to cling to the past rather than engage with the challenge of making the most of the future, says Nail." That's a rather naive view of what's going on in the world right now.
How so? It strikes me as pretty accurate.
In our bubble where we work in tech with stable, high-paying jobs, health insurance, and benefits, these people look hopelessly provincial. But it was by ignoring or dismissing them in the first place that Brexit and Trump were allowed to happen.
That's largely a false narrative though. Trump's support was much stronger among wealthy whites in areas that were doing relatively better than most of the nation economically.
Fundamentally Brexit and Trump are symptoms of a rejection of free-market liberalism as a good idea for the future of the world. People like localism. They like work. People are hungry for a good future. It's certainly not being offered to them by some google-glass Orwellian world ruled by silicon valley and wall street.
People rejected Kurzeil and Nail and the people attending this course. But they didn't reject the challenge of making the most of the future.
Is it? Did you watch the inauguration with all of its cheesy old-old-school references? Make what 'again?'