“When they find out how to burn water,
And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel,
And the sunlight heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up,
And the sun comes shinin’ through.
We’ll all be drinkin’ free bubble-up,
An’ eatin’ that rainbow stew.”
– Merle Haggard: Rainbow Stew
Would these be good things? Would we be better off if we could run our cars on water rather than gasoline, and fly our airplanes without any fuel, and heat our homes with sunlight? I think so, even though quite a few people would have to find new jobs outside the fossil fuels industry. Free goods are better than goods that require a lot of labor to produce. Workers should be used efficiently, where most needed—not used where they are not needed. Rather than count jobs, we should make jobs count.
Merle’s Rainbow Stew came to mind when I read that the F.C.C. Chair opposes the ATT-T-Mobile merger because it would kill jobs. Now, I don’t have an informed view on the desirability of the merger, or whether it would create more jobs or destroy jobs. But I did a double-take when I saw potential job
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