Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's "abundance" agenda fails to address the roots of our intertwining crises and threatens to make them worse.
As a nation, we face many problems, including extreme wealth inequality, rising authoritarianism, an affordability crisis, climate change, and more. These problems are largely the result of years of policy that have allowed huge amounts of wealth to concentrate in the hands of a small number of people.
The problem is simply a failure of Democratic leaders to have a big vision of abundance.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's recent book diagnoses the core of this problem as regulations that slow progress and prevent innovation and growth.
Abundance agenda falls short in addressing crises.