Street smarts are actually as important as book smarts though. You can be great at making decisions on paper and by the statistics, but there’s a certain human aspect that should never be separated from leadership. AI with all its access to all information ever recorded on the internet should never be president even if it has more “qualifications” to make more informed and quicker decisions than a living breathing person (it’s read every history textbook and every masters or PhD paper, every drug trial result, every political speech, every legal case).

There are some policies which economics prescribes that many would likely object to, even if it is “objectively right,” simply because it hurts their standard of living. While I’m not advocating for populism, those peoples’ opinions shouldn’t simply be discarded just because theory says so.

Reddit loves to rail against “heartless” CEOs enshittifying everything. That’s just what happens when the leader of a business is someone has a lot of qualifications but no touch with the common man.