Kudlow on predictions
2020-04-06 21:45:40.836868+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
One of the things that this crisis has done is driven all the nails in all of the coffins of any notion that there's anything to the notion of "meritocracy". Most recent is National Economic Director Larry Kudlow saying "... I don’t believe anybody would have predicted the exponential rise of this...".
I mean, sure, you can ignore the century or so of public health scholarship, and the thousands of epidemiologists, and the people who responded to SARS, and the transition team that briefed the current administration...
But when you're ignoring a million tech bros on Medium? Dude, that's a little too far.