Economics

Economists are the ultimate permissive parents who believe in just letting the kids (markets) run free and see what happens.

Children need boundaries, or they grow up to be assholes.

Economies need boundaries, or they grow up to be assholes.

We aren’t talking Soviet Style planned economies here. We are talking guardrails, so we don’t take a corner at

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My current favorite theory about what's gone wrong since the 1970s is that we stopped innovating to maximize performance and started optimizing for energy (and resource) efficiency. Imagine all the cool shit we're gonna build once we have abundant sources of clean energy...