Larry Summers is an astonishingly stupid man. He's a blinkered simpleton—not unlike the way some people stereotype rural people as country bumpkins—with zero appreciation of any nuance, ever. Unlike stereotyped country bumpkins, though, Summers also has zero understanding of anything about real people or the real world.
I've read a bunch of his [non-]arguments, trying to figure out why anybody anywhere has an ounce of respect for this dude or even takes him seriously—let alone giving him the positions he's had, with actual influence on policy—and i still haven't found one that doesn't read like self-parody.
His whole CV is enough to show just how pervasive the upper-class old boys' network is, so that fully incompetent idiots like Summers can't fall in any direction but up.
DarthVelmaOctober 11, 2022(Edited October 11, 2022)
My general reaction to Larry is to roll my eyes. He's a sexist, self-absorbed, know-it-all blowhard who has basically been wrong about everything ever and should shut up about everything, including economics. Especially economics, where for reasons that are beyond comprehension people still listen to him bloviate despite him being proved wrong repeatedly.
And he's certainly one of those dudes who think being highly educated a) makes them right and b) means they're experts on everything no matter how unrelated the subject is to their actual field of education. (Yeah, I'm looking at you Neil deGrasse Tyson.)
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Larry Summers is an astonishingly stupid man. He's a blinkered simpleton—not unlike the way some people stereotype rural people as country bumpkins—with zero appreciation of any nuance, ever. Unlike stereotyped country bumpkins, though, Summers also has zero understanding of anything about real people or the real world.
I've read a bunch of his [non-]arguments, trying to figure out why anybody anywhere has an ounce of respect for this dude or even takes him seriously—let alone giving him the positions he's had, with actual influence on policy—and i still haven't found one that doesn't read like self-parody.
His whole CV is enough to show just how pervasive the upper-class old boys' network is, so that fully incompetent idiots like Summers can't fall in any direction but up.
My general reaction to Larry is to roll my eyes. He's a sexist, self-absorbed, know-it-all blowhard who has basically been wrong about everything ever and should shut up about everything, including economics. Especially economics, where for reasons that are beyond comprehension people still listen to him bloviate despite him being proved wrong repeatedly.
And he's certainly one of those dudes who think being highly educated a) makes them right and b) means they're experts on everything no matter how unrelated the subject is to their actual field of education. (Yeah, I'm looking at you Neil deGrasse Tyson.)
In short, he's a poopyhead. :-)