holy crap that was terrifying. Basically, an economist and a law professor very authoritatively talking as though the last ten years didn't happen. I guess it figures-- in America you have the Chicago school and the Originalist camp: the two shit slices of shit bread in the shit sandwich we're eating.. and everybody defines themselves relative to that, more or less. So I guess these people lack even the language to talk about community investment, generational trauma, social services, infrastructure, city budgets, civic corruption, oh yeah POLICE UNIONS, yadda yadda. Jesus christ we all live in fear of the police in the US and these guys have no idea. What a red blooded wank.. I don't even have to quote just pick any random paragraph.. jesus. Oh, props to never mentioning gun laws once! Wonderful.
What really boils my clams is the ignorance-so-profound-it-must-be-wilful of the MASSIVE roles the two classes of people represented here (lawyers and economists) have played in the fucking up and routing out of the poor in America, and of the perpetuation of our primordial slave state. it's just so damn arrogant. Kinda reminds me of Russ Roberts: perfectly smart people for whom reality just does not exist.
Maybe the unifying thread of all this is just not understanding human frailty at all, and so missing the mark on everything that depends on it.
I wonder if it's especially bad because it's a transcript of a podcast.. people might be used to hearing spew like this in audio form because of talk radio, but you don't often see it written down quite so baldly.