I'm a 'lover of chaos'. My working desks always gather strata of documents, more often than not disheveling onto the surrounding floor.
This article however rubs me the wrong way right from the start. 'Cars running at the same speed' aren't "efficiency-destroying" nor about spurious 'appearance'. A controlled laminar flow is incredibly more efficient than chaotic turbulence.
It does not get any better later on, when the author waxes lyrically about 'beautiful equilibrium that evolved to satisfy a thousand competing constraint' in the absence of planning, casually glossing over the part where communal zoning regulation prevents not just externality dumping races to the bottom and the basis for non-speculative investment to those that can't afford to gamble or force their own "manu militari" regulation.
While self proclaiming "not suggesting all chaos is good", it is exactly what the rest of the article's suggestive language tries to convey. The deregulation agenda, while not explicitly spelled out, is omnipresent in the tenure of the writing.
P.S. I'm not surprised to learn that the author works for Uber.
Very well said, and I think you've hit the nail on the head with regards to the 'deregulation agenda'. The subtext of articles like this is always that interference, in the form of regulations, is a negative action, and by stripping away the messy human meddling we'll reap the rewards. It's never considered that the human meddling is so often done to protect the humans themselves, most often the very weakest or most powerless.
This article however rubs me the wrong way right from the start. 'Cars running at the same speed' aren't "efficiency-destroying" nor about spurious 'appearance'. A controlled laminar flow is incredibly more efficient than chaotic turbulence.
It does not get any better later on, when the author waxes lyrically about 'beautiful equilibrium that evolved to satisfy a thousand competing constraint' in the absence of planning, casually glossing over the part where communal zoning regulation prevents not just externality dumping races to the bottom and the basis for non-speculative investment to those that can't afford to gamble or force their own "manu militari" regulation.
While self proclaiming "not suggesting all chaos is good", it is exactly what the rest of the article's suggestive language tries to convey. The deregulation agenda, while not explicitly spelled out, is omnipresent in the tenure of the writing.
P.S. I'm not surprised to learn that the author works for Uber.