This kind of article seems to be responding to a kind of brain-dead online comment section take that doesn’t really merit response in a manner that counter-productively suggests it does. I have never encountered someone with anything beyond vague awareness of the existence of Adam Smith and the phrase “invisible hand” who sincerely believed he was some kind of simplistic avatar of free markets.
>Smith was a nuanced thinker.
For anyone who finds this thesis or the scant evidence presented here informative, I think it might be more helpful to suggest they get off TikTok and learn to read or watch some Khan Academy video on basic arithmetic. You could publish dozens of separate articles to explain that various widely celebrated historical geniuses were in fact brilliant and hugely influential, but that seems to be targeted at peripheral symptoms without doing anything for the disease.
To be fair, I do frequently see people on this sub who probably would claim to disagree with the vibes of this piece. I just don’t think this kind of brief article is going to be the thing that convinces them to spend more time outside their mindless terminally online echo chambers.
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This kind of article seems to be responding to a kind of brain-dead online comment section take that doesn’t really merit response in a manner that counter-productively suggests it does. I have never encountered someone with anything beyond vague awareness of the existence of Adam Smith and the phrase “invisible hand” who sincerely believed he was some kind of simplistic avatar of free markets.
>Smith was a nuanced thinker.
For anyone who finds this thesis or the scant evidence presented here informative, I think it might be more helpful to suggest they get off TikTok and learn to read or watch some Khan Academy video on basic arithmetic. You could publish dozens of separate articles to explain that various widely celebrated historical geniuses were in fact brilliant and hugely influential, but that seems to be targeted at peripheral symptoms without doing anything for the disease.
To be fair, I do frequently see people on this sub who probably would claim to disagree with the vibes of this piece. I just don’t think this kind of brief article is going to be the thing that convinces them to spend more time outside their mindless terminally online echo chambers.