Bethany McLean is terrific. The guests are terrific. Luigi... Not so much. Regurgitates Chicago School phrases, context independent, like magnet poetry for neo

Bethany McLean is terrific. The guests are terrific. Luigi... Not so much. Regurgitates Chicago School phrases, context independent, like magnet poetry for neoliberals. Luigi's response to Cory Doctorow and Chokepoint Capitalism was lacking. Expects Cory to have a fix for regulatory capture, a problem which has confounded economists for generations. Then is unsatisfied with Cory's prescribed remedies, which adroitly side steps the damage. ("I don't want to wait generations for creatives to get paid for their work." Preach, brother.) Then, predictably, Luigi doesn't think creatives are entitled to any of the wealth generated by their cultural output, while parasitic corporate gatekeepers rake in billions from those same efforts. By mere virtue of being the rent seekers. (Ignoring one of conservative economics' central criticisms of capitalism.) Unironically, obliviously proving Doctorow's whole thesis. Luigi is just so maddeningly, depressingly, typical. So I just fast forward thru Luigi's blather. I wonder why McLean suffers Luigi. Maybe her cunning plan is to let the vacuousness of Chicagoian School self-invalidate and she trusts her listenership to see thru the Great Oz's charade.