Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons
The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.
The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.
The long-term case for optimism is all about the astonishing expansion of the division of labor globally.
John Wanamaker was the Gilded Age genius who pioneered the department store, the posted single price for goods, the money-back guarantee, and the p
We are small, bottom-up, voluntary, and flexible, while the statists' organizations, starting with the government itself, but also other organizations such as the UN and the IMF, are big, coercive and centralized. Governments are inefficient, slow, corrupt. This is why we will win this.
In fact, it is pretty clear that there is no such thing as homemade ice cream, and that we use the phrase only in the most metaphorical sense. Thank goodness. The store is just the last stop in a huge and extended process that emerged over centuries and requires the involvement of people all over the world.
The division of labor works in dating as it does with anything else. The academically inclined should focus their energies and time on their studies. That's what they enjoy and what they're good at. And now these young entrepreneurs have created a way to efficiently match potentially compatible people.
Thank goodness that no local government has decided that lawn care is a public good.