New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 135
Government can do many things in the world, but one thing it cannot do is produce abundance and prosperity. Why not? Its incentives are all wrong, and over time they tend to get worse. In this probing episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into the intrinsic issues with government when it comes to creating abundance and prosperity, explaining why these are the product of a “problem-solving theory of value” that government is poorly incentivize...
Published on November 19, 2025 08:16