re: #41 freetoken

Confessing - I really don’t like Friedman, and it’s because of things like this:

Oh, why? Note he doesn’t give an argument for that assertion, he just throws it out there as some self-evident truth.

But it’s quite likely not to be true. Innovation comes in spurts, has been strongly linked to either “free markets” or to necessity (e.g., war or starvation), and isn’t predictable reliably enough for anyone to state with confidence from where the next shiny new savior (“technology”) will come.

He wrote a book about it. The World is Flat. He makes a very strong case for the fact that globalization is inevitable, unstoppable and ultimately not really all that terrible for those who adapt. It’s really worth reading even if you’re not convinced by the end.