http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/04/15/capitalism-is-failing-the-middle-class/
Apparently because it isn’t creating enough jobs. Or something.
Oh no!
Noble prize winner X says: people can get more consumption goods for each hour that they work thanks to globalization and their increased productivity, than they have in the past.
They could, however, do even better. Everyone can do better, in principle. However well they are doing, they could do even better; so capitalism has failed, he says. Which is an “unremarkable conclusion,” adds random journalist with minimal training in economics.
There is no fastest motion, as said Leibniz. If you think you are going fast, you can go faster. Sure; Leibniz never said, however, that a wheel “has failed,” because if you extend its diameter, a nail at its rim could, in principle, spin faster.
That’s the difference between Leibniz and our current Nobel Prize winners in Economics.