I just finished Atlas Shrugged this year and I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s nearly time for us to trade our jobs as CEOs, CFOs, business owners, inventors, PhDs, lawyers, etc. for a job digging holes and filling them back in.

Play by their rules – causality will show the errors inherent in their theories.

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The only problem is that the leftist mentality is so ingrained they cannot see the connection between the states they have fled and the policies they embrace. This, plus significant black populations, was enough to turn NC and VA blue for example. They are living in the golden land where they can vote for and support leftists like Obama without it having any real effect on their lives – yet.

I would imagine that when the people and companies that have produced the boom that the South has enjoyed for so long get the picture, the exodus of talent from the US to other countries will be real, and it will be final.

1. The guy had no concept of economic reality.
2. The guy seemed to think the most important cog in the creation of wealth was the role of government.

I think you’re way too generous in assuming he’s “read a few books”, other than maybe the kind with lots of color pictures. Personally, I think he’s been watching too much TV and paying way too much attention to stuff like Democracy Now!

Have some Albanian folk dancing again.

What many of them don’t seem to understand though, is that it’s not enough to be creative if you don’t have a marketing plan, a targeted customer base, and the ability to deliver your product consistently. Too many of them think that they are so wonderful that people will flock to their doorstep and beg for their work.

And too many end up getting jobs at McDonald’s to pay the rent. Reality can be a b**ch.

Could you just throw it in here for good measure? Those links have long fallen off my list I so don’t have the Video embed around

As to the sleepless nights thing, I think that will apply to a whole lot of folks for a whole lot of reasons in the next few years. We are facing unprecedented times on a number of fronts. The sky, in other words, is green on many days now.

It’s just amazing how many clowns can sit in their rooms reading a few books and think that gives them infinite knowledge of the world. I talk about competitive tax policy problems, and this clown calls ME names? I’m out there in the mix, he clearly isn’t.

I was wondering if some goofball would show up and refloat that whole “creative class” b.s. Somehow I don’t think the people who have fled to Paris and/or Amsterdam are ones we miss at all.

If you missed it, some Canadian professor wrote a book back in 2000 called “The Rise of the Creative Class.” The basic thesis was that the prime underlying driver for creating economic growth was to make your jurisdiction friendly for “artistic” types – and somehow this would create magic fog in the air that promoted commercial growth.

I don’t know where the guy was getting this (or maybe his book was a spoof), since from my travels all over everywhere I long ago concluded that a good commercial situation is what generates the cash flow that lets you have high-grade performing arts. Atlanta is a good example of this.

Florida’s book created two awful problems. First, it provided an excuse for all sorts of self-serving fools to focus on building up an “arts community” – which usually meant bringing in all their junk art buddies with their hands outstretched. The second was that it gave an excuse for all of these people to be incredibly pompous – that somehow only “artists” were “creative” – and everyone else was just a braindead cog in a big machine. None of these people of course would deign to have any business or innovation experience – which is where you find the genuinely most-creative people.