Recommended Reading
Jim Manzi has as terrific essay titled Keeping America’s Edge in National Affairs. He writes about the trade-offs between equity and efficiency in terms of innovation and the problems it creates with social cohesion. Without explicitly stating so, he puts in a contemporary context the conflicting arguments of Kirk, Heyak and Schumpeter against the likes of Rawls and Ackerman – a clear headed feat not easily achieved.
You may not agree with his prescription but his historical overview is sound.
I was particularly interested in this graph as a perfect example of “creative destruction.”
For a guy who’s supposed to know something about artificial intelligence, he sure seems oblivious to the laws of technological evolution. He needs to go back to the 1960s and read some of Marcuse’s books like The One-Dimensional Man—“ Complete automation in the realm of necessity would open the dimension of free time as the one in which man’s private and societal existence would constitute itself. This would be the historical transcendence toward a new civilization.”