The most dangerous wrong ideas in public policy are the ones that sound so intuitively true that any attempt to push back or even nuance them can be sneeringly dismissed as academic foolishness that flies in the face of 'common sense'.
I... may have written a book about this. 👀
Dmitry Grozoubinski
I can excuse @iaindale.bsky.social's ignorance here.
Just because anyone with a very basic economics education should recognise the lump of labour fallacy doesn't mean he should.
But the arrogance combined with the absolutely deliberate refusal to think is quite remarkable.
