This content was created by Tim Draper. This content was uploaded by Tim Draper. This is a YouTube video titled "Q&A Part 4 Problem Solving | Jason Calacanis" (published 2017-09-11). The excerpt is a Q&A/talk-style monologue by Jason Calacanis in which he discusses political polarization, the need for deliberate, solutions-oriented action (e.g., housing, rapid transit, climate change, immigration), a brief mention of his mayoral run (mayorjason.com), criticism of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord, and advocating for technocratic problem-solving including reliance on figures like Elon Musk. The content is opinionated and focused on policy, innovation, and global challenges.
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Rage doesn't solve the problems that Donald Trump is creating right now. The rage actually does very little. Deliberate action, people running for office, people investigating if there are— if there's wrongdoing with the Russians, like, there are specific things we can do that actually are meaningful to solve our problems. And one of the problems in our society, I believe, is we're so polarized and yelling at each other that we're not looking at solutions. Right? I wish that politics and politicians were based on their ability to implement solutions and their ability to bring together innovation. If I run for mayor, mayorjason.com, which was a joke that's now turned into something that's only half a joke, my platform is going to be innovation and all of us looking at what is the best possible solution for housing, what is the best possible solution, what are the best possible solutions for rapid transit. And let's have a candid discussion about how innovative we want to be and how we're going to fund these in an innovative way, not which side is right or wrong, or these politics and culture and politics of culture. We need to really solve big problems. And things like global warming, this cannot be a religious battle. It has to be a battle of action and science and action and deliberate execution on solutions and then monitoring those solutions and having a candid discussion about the data, just like you do at a company. We can't just randomly, haphazardly solve global warming, problems around migration and immigration, food. These are problems that transcend one country or one political party. It's really a dangerous moment in society. There's a chance that we will not make it through this next set of problems, 'cause the problems are so global in nature, and the world is so broken into factions that I'm very concerned, 'cause factions are not gonna solve this problem. It's not that one side is right and one side is wrong. It's that we all have to collaborate on solving these problems. They can't be done by one country. That's why we had the Paris Accord, and then we left it. And like the only other people that left the Paris Accord was what, Venezuela and— Syria. And Syria. Wow, 2 bastions of democracy and innovation and prosperity. I mean, these are 2 of the most fucked up countries in the world, and we're gonna join them in the list of like just not giving a shit? That's no offense to people from Venezuela, but I mean, we know how fucked up it is there right now, right? Like it's a disaster, and Syria is obviously in chaos. We're putting ourselves on the list of chaotic countries. I mean, it's— people should absolutely be scared right now. Great question. Elon Musk to use Mars spaceship on the Iran. Listen, I think a really good strategy for the next 10 years might be to bring the top 10 problems we have to Elon Musk and just have him write a white paper. Like, honestly, if he wrote a white paper, like, we should just literally bring him like, global warming, what should we do? And just Elon writes like, okay, electric cars, solar panels, Solar and this, and we just take it and we go execute it. I mean, he's brilliant, he's a good friend of mine, like, we should just trust him with like, Elon, what should we do about education? He's like, oh, I think we should do this. Great. His solution is absolutely gonna be better than any faction's politicized solution. Let's go.
