There's so much institutional inertia to these things. Globalization didn't just happen. People pushed for it for years.
I find it a bit trite that economists can write these self indulgent essays and don't recognize the outsized impact they have had on society. I appreciate the change or heart. But the impacts on people have been so great it would be more of a gesture if this person took all their wealth, put it in a pile, burned it, and then walked into the ocean.
This is someone who got to have their cake, Whole career built on a fad, and eat it too, ie be fawned upon with esteem due to a regretful essay in their winter years.
We're going to see more of this stuff, and next it'll be Big Oil execs regretting their career and then doing nothing about the problem.
I find it a bit trite that economists can write these self indulgent essays and don't recognize the outsized impact they have had on society. I appreciate the change or heart. But the impacts on people have been so great it would be more of a gesture if this person took all their wealth, put it in a pile, burned it, and then walked into the ocean.
This is someone who got to have their cake, Whole career built on a fad, and eat it too, ie be fawned upon with esteem due to a regretful essay in their winter years.
We're going to see more of this stuff, and next it'll be Big Oil execs regretting their career and then doing nothing about the problem.