There's an interesting parallel with redistributive economics: banning things is like endlessly trying to patch up the system with tax and welfare tweaks instead of making work pay in the first place. You need an agenda for increasing the good, not playing whack a mole with the bad.
I can't remember who it was pointed out that a working class job for these people has to mean a man hitting a bit of metal with another bit of metal
“great struggle of an outsider and a disruptor whom people resisted for most of his life” - what the hell is James Graham talking about