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> It will, if nothing else, demonstrate the utter idiocy of thinking a real estate developer understood the economy better than a professional politician. That
by zeveb 9y ago
> It will, if nothing else, demonstrate the utter idiocy of thinking a real estate developer understood the economy better than a professional politician.
That sounds a little like 'the utter idiocy of thinking a sous chef understands particle physics better than a janitor': I see no reason why either profession would have an edge over the other. Frankly, neither is real business: real estate is easily as much about using public means to earn private profit as it is about working in an actual market, and of course politics is not a free-market business at all.
- moomin 9y agoI want you to imagine for the moment that people have been telling you repeatedly that the sous chef is an economic genius. And whilst I didn't say the janitor knows _more_ about economics, I think to fully complete your picture you should assume the janitor gets a lot of reading done and has read a single introductory macroecon text book in the last twenty years.