If this is a serious problem, then it deserves to be taken seriously, and it says a great deal about the commentariat that the vast majority of the discussion hasn’t done that
i feel like my main contribution to this conversation has basically been to ask people to actually take this seriously as a thing that could happen and give it a real cost/benefit analysis
The serious people have not been serious people in decades
Friedman, for just one example, should have been retired by the Iraq War
Only economists can be wrong as many times and keep their jobs
