In short, politics and religion is a battle over top-down control. Rather I just accept the world is diverse and I'm not going to be able to form a society of like-minded people. Ultimately economic arguments are what matters. I would probably be more interested if these dudes were telling me how I can be more competitive.
They are telling you how to be more competitive. They are simply highlighting how to be competitive globally and holistically on a multi generational timeline.
In my opinion you will have great difficulties forming a society of like-minded people because your core positions are mutually exclusive. You can eliminate top down control or you can be competitive you cannot do both.
Freedom requires self-control to maintain coherence. The more knowledgeable and freer the society the more self-control is needed. When a society chooses to reject internal self-control aka moral restraint it leads inevitably to external political restraint aka a police state. The only alternative to those two possibilities is the general loss of coherence and the wanton destruction of accumulated knowledge.
Economic arguments are important but secondary for economics and game theory are ultimately driven by morality and ethics.
We have disagreed on this point in the past.
See:
Superrationality and the Infinite