Thomas Friedman Presents Evidence of a Skills Mismatch in His NYT Column

Thomas Friedman did his usual Sunday morning stretch, waxing eloquently on a new era in:

"in which to be a president, a governor, a mayor or a college president will be, on balance, to take things away from people."

It's not clear why this would be the case. After all, productivity is growing at a rate of 2.0-2.5 percent annually. This should mean that we are getting richer, not poorer, through time. But Thomas Friedmanland bears little resemblance to the world of gravity and arithmetic that...