I think that as people criticizing a regime, despite the regime's terribleness, we have an epistemic obligation to provide alternatives. If I explain why your perpetual motion machine cannot work, I am not obliged to provide you with a plan for a working perpetual motion machine. If you don't know how to live your life without claiming to have plans for a perpetual motion machine, that cannot oblige me to figure out how to make your fantasy a reality.

This is true even though many people falsely claim to be trying to create a new culture, and simply redecorate an old one.

In 2008 we worried that:- It might become cheaper to live in a home.- Wall Street might shrink as a share of the economy.- The corrupt Big 3 automakers might get out of the way of well-run companies like Hyundai and TeslaThe Fed made more money to prevent this good outcome.