Ezra Klein calls this piece powerful. There is a lot of telling information in it.
Brad DeLong’s take on “You Didn’t Build That!”
Worthy of a reply by me, but I’m retired and no one cares anyway!
Two Takes
Dec 19th, 2016 by wintercow20
Posted in Economics Problems, Employment, Tribalism, Welfare State
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My feeble attempt at mirroring the Wintercow school of argument…
Let’s concede the premise behind “you didn’t build that”–success is based on luck rather than effort. So is the lottery. If a lottery distributes winnings evenly among people who play and don’t play (I mean, nobody “earned” those winnings), how may people buy a ticket?