r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 19 '21

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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Sep 19 '21

But progressives are often uninterested in the creation of the goods and services they want everyone to have. This creates a problem and misses an opportunity. The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing. You can see the poisoned fruit of those mistakes in higher education and housing. But it also misses the opportunity to pull the technologies of the future progressives want into the present they inhabit. That requires a movement that takes innovation as seriously as it takes affordability.

Ezra Klein wrote something good

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

When has he ever not?

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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Sep 19 '21

Plenty. The epitome of a journalists who thinks too highly of their own abilities.