How To Open Job Opportunities To Replace The Decline In Manufacturing
Reducing occupational licensing, encouraging craftsmanship jobs, and reforming zoning to lower housing prices can help the middle class succeed again.
Tesla Is An Environmentalist Tulip Mania
Elon Musk’s electric car company has always been a triumph of green hype over reality. Now Tesla is finally running out of other people’s money.
The New Yorker Prophesies That Humans Will Invent Themselves Out Of Existence
The New Yorker cover story underplays the terrifying vision of the future it prophesies: a future with economic affluence, manufacturing efficiency, and few to no jobs for low-skilled workers.
The Universal Basic Income Is An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come
Does it seem odd that those who made their billions by applying their ingenuity and skill to create technological advances now recommend establishing a nonworking class?
We’re Afraid Of Robots Because We Don’t Believe In God
For robots to even be considered a threat, we must assume their complex tasks are so like what a human being does that their ascendency is only a matter of technological refinement.
If Low-Skill Immigrants Don’t Compete With Working-Class Americans, Robots Will
Donald Trump wants us to believe that immigration is hurting American workers. The truth is more complicated—and less useful.
A $10 Minimum Wage Might Help Trump But Hurt America
A $10 minimum wage is unconservative, illogical, harmful to Americans, and popular—the perfect Donald Trump platform.
How Free Traders Fueled Trump And Can Beat Him
Protectionists want to force poor American consumers to subsidize well-connected cronies. They must no longer be given free rein to mislead with impunity.
Minimum Wages And Trade Barriers Can’t Manufacture Dignity
Large-scale market interference risks turning some jobs into anti-productive workfare programs. What might that do for the dignity of the American worker?
When Progressive Policies Cause Creative Destruction
Since automation trends are primarily government-driven, non-elites who vote for progressive candidates are going to have an increasingly tough time.
5 Things Matt Yglesias Gets Wrong About Automation
The kind of artificial intelligence that could displace most human work is not right around the corner. What is? Severe economic disruption due to increasing automation.
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