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Friedman argues by example of course. He argues for rebuilding the country's infrastructure, which would of course be a great thing. However, he wants the country to pay for it with more taxes on the middle class and cutting Social Security benefits.
A skilled columnist would know that the U.S. Social Security system is already among the least generous of the OECD countries. A skilled columnist would also know that most near retirees will have almost nothing to support themselves in their retirement other than Social Security because the people who Friedman thinks of as experts (economists) are not very good at their jobs (i.e. they allowed the housing bubble to grow to a level where its collapse would inevitably wreck the economy and destroy the savings [mostly home equity] of near retirees).
A skilled columnist would suggest a tax on the people who have profited from and caused the economic decay of the last three decades. Specifically a financial speculation tax, which could raise more than $150 billion a year while discouraging financial speculation and reducing the drain of resources that the financial sector imposes on the economy.
A skilled columnist would also know that the real source of the long-term budget problems projected for the United States is health care. A skilled columnist would focus on the need to get U.S. health care costs in line with the rest of the world as the only way to fix the country's long-term budget problems as well as removing an enormous source of strain on the private economy.
But Friedman shows that the U.S. economy still has good paying jobs for people without skills by writing a column that addresses economic issues with no apparent awareness of most of the relevant facts. If the NYT had more op-ed positions it could go far toward reducing inequality.
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What happens when the unstoppable force of a skilled economist like Baker crashes into the immovable object of a skilled columnist?
The result is Creative Destruction, the well known force that topples the monopoly power of mainstream media under its own weight of obsolescence, freeing up the vibrant forces of innovation and productivity to emerge and replace myths with facts, fables with history, lies with truth. Competition in action as free speech.
This is how capitalism prevents people with few skills from being overemployed and overpaid as Friedman would endorse.
Friedman, like the unemployed, is well aware that his skills must continuously be upgraded and honed to the finest edge of manufactured propaganda a formal education can provide to justify his income, lest the thousands who seek his position will indeed get it because there's no barriers to entry, and the incremental cost of human capital to learn how to say the same things he says is zero.