The intuitive notion of "creative destruction" has of course been around for a long time, but here the author seems to be floating a proposal for intentional, c

The intuitive notion of "creative destruction" has of course been around for a long time, but here the author seems to be floating a proposal for intentional, controlled, and large-scale demolition of specific physical and/or institutional economic infrastructure. Of course economic systems generally meet some notion of antifragility, at least to the extent that they are distributed. The question is how big of a wound can one inflict before compromising the ability of the system to restore and strengthen itself.