Capitalism Buries Its Undertakers

Some years ago, while interning at a think tank to preach the gospel of free markets, I heard a colleague make an argument against capitalism more devastating than all the Thomas Piketty charts in the world. He told me he had just seen the latest Transformers film: “Pretty good!” It stopped me in my tracks. America’s great economic freedom was the freedom to do … this? Under our free enterprise system, her citizens chose to give their leisure hours and hard-earned pay to melting their brains as CGI robots bash each other’s circuits in?