[caddie]

Williams (as he calls himself) is usually good but he here looks at existing law and conventional morality through the economists' severely narrowed microscope, thus dropping the ball bigly.

This kind of thinking brings us things like free trade... Economists can 'prove' with crystalline logic that free trade ultimately benefits everyone to the highest degree (on average), and is the best solution to world trade.

Never mind that it drives wealthy nations' wages down to the world wide average.

But generally speaking, it is beneficial, right? Have we not all enjoyed the last 30 years of wage stagnation?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Good point... We need the theologian and moral scholar here. Economics can at best be a subset of it.

Witness the debate about what MAGA means. Or maybe it should even be “Make America Great Like It Never Was Before.”