Tyler Cowen

Most new jobs, in fact, will be things that very few individuals can think of in advance. But the market with wages and prices iterates with its own algorithms and solves that problem, creates new jobs.

"Let’s send a check to everyone" is an appealing idea, but I've come around to the view that doing so would do more harm than good. [...] It eventually would choke off immigration to the U.S. Voters don't like sending money to immigrants.