Covid-2019 - 2021-11-13

We've been saying all along that the work-from-home revolution unleashed by the pandemic lockdowns would usher in a new era in productivity -- as firms and individuals optimize employment arrangements by exercising options they never knew they had before. But we forgot about government. In "Recommended Reading," a story in the New York Times (of course) celebrating (of course) the interventions by the government (of course) of a European country (of course) to limit the freedom of employers and employees to negotiate this new world unconstrained by arbitrary laws. Sigh...