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Farting Around

Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

The reasoning is a marvel: because executives have asked to be regulated, the risk must be fake — as though no one in the history of business has ever wanted rules written by friendly hands. Then, in the same breath, he cites a rival head of state as the gold standard for prudence and complains that permitting is too hard in a country he currently runs. The hoax list is the tell; anything that has ever produced an unflattering headline gets swept into a single word, and now a branch of computer science has joined the roster. Ending on a demand that a company change their thinking is not economic policy — it is a man who has confused a keyboard with a lever.