Mutation and risk taking are worth a try, The Business Cycle closes at some
point. Personally, I would never have thrown a lifeline to Starmer. But then I
play the short game. I look back on the world since 1945 and credit those old
pols with doing quite well. But the institutions since then, have become
inherited by less and less qualified offsrping.
On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 07:33:51 AM EDT, John Clark
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM '[email protected]' via Everything List
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not wedded to Friedman or Smith.
Obviously.
> Let's see if this Tariff policy works in real life
It has about as much chance of working as gargling with Clorox has of turning
out to be a good way to prevent Covid. And when it fails, which won't take
long, Trump will at first deny that it is failing but when that denial becomes
impossible he will insist that the colossal blunder was entirely Joe Biden's
fault and he had nothing to do with it. I mean how could it, it failed yet
Trump never fails therefore the only logical conclusion is that Trump must've
had nothing to do with those astronomically high tariffs. It's a simple
Aristotelian syllogism. Right?
> Starmer seemed to be good with it
Trump said that. Starmer most certainly did not.
> Roll the dice and see if this pays out
In other words you and Trump are advocating that the economic policy of the USA
should be random mutation and natural selection. Well that's the way biological
brains got invented but it took about 3 billion years to go from the first
living cell to something that could be called a primitive brain. It also
entailed an astronomical amount of suffering. But humans, or at least most
humans, have brains so we could do things much faster; the first electronic
computer is only about 80 years old but today we have an AI that is smarter
than most people about most things and much smarter than any person about some
things, and they are still evolving at a far far faster rate than anything
biological evolution can manage.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
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