I mean, I think you are right about him being anti-progress and fantasy-proposing terrible ‘solutions’ to real problems. I don’t think you are correct to give him so much credit for productivity slowdown. I think his effect is quite a bit more minor than that. I think the productivity slowdown is mostly due to weird unanticipated long term downstream effects of our government structure, land use rules, tax structures, and a tendency towards veto-ochracy.
I mean, I think you are right about him being anti-progress and fantasy-proposing terrible ‘solutions’ to real problems. I don’t think you are correct to give him so much credit for productivity slowdown. I think his effect is quite a bit more minor than that. I think the productivity slowdown is mostly due to weird unanticipated long term downstream effects of our government structure, land use rules, tax structures, and a tendency towards veto-ochracy.