Sublime

Without social progress at home, the pro-free trade stand is no longer associated with prosperity and economic security. Rather, it is perceived as exposing workers to instability, lowered purchasing power and accelerating unemployment in sectors of the economy that are no longer competitive on the global stage.

no more need to have them enforce our contracts.

Trae argues that a lot of high-margin software businesses have no impact on society, and sometimes even a negative impact on society 

• There are high-margin software companies that do important things, but many are related to advertising, capturing human attention, or creating obscure developer tools for enterprises


• These software compani

The central question of this book is this: Where do prosperity and economic security come from? I believe they don’t come from a single magic-bullet mechanism like wage subsidies, a robot tax, tougher antitrust measures, a higher minimum wage, or universal basic income. Rather they can only emerge from a complex macro mechanism that goes way beyond