Not shooting down his idea... but "I haven’t read a single piece of actual economic data to support this, I have taken half of one economics class and read a li

Not shooting down his idea... but "I haven’t read a single piece of actual economic data to support this, I have taken half of one economics class and read a little on Wikipedia in my entire life" reminded me of this [1]. Nothing as dangerous as a little bit of domain knowledge. In fact, this is the thing we tend to rip our hair out about whenever politicians come in and make up 'rules' about technology with the slightest bit of knowledge to lead them totally off the wrong track. [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html