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John Rock Foster's avatar

Exactly right. We just need freedom.

Andrew L Sullivan's avatar

This is happening because most economists are having difficulty understanding a digital economy and how it functions. When people do not know how the digital economy functions, they apply ideas which do not function.

John Rock Foster's avatar

It's not just the digital economy that many ECONOMISTS don't understand. Way too many of them don't understand the most basic concepts of market v. non-market transactions, incentives, and subjective value.

You'd expect that for laypeople, but it's a serious indictment of the profession that such ignorance could exist there. Laypeople have to get it somewhere else (from Vance!).