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Donovan Twaddle's avatar

“Destroy the incentives that sustain that system, and the wall collapses into scarcity again.”

For some reason, this made me think of all the empty shelves I saw during the Covid lockdowns. Perhaps the government (Biden admin at the time) sometimes “destroys incentives” for whatever reason. Maybe they’re trying to paint a narrative for potential voters by blaming someone or something else, then trying to fix it. Create a problem, then create a solution to look like a hero.

Maybe this is tangential to the point of the article. But it’s just some thoughts I had.

Alisa Folds's avatar

Government intervention always aims to shift incentives, no matter who is in power.