Monday, May 07, 2018

too good to be true

My review of "Black Panther" noted that the land of Wakanda, whatever its charms, was nonetheless unreal—a fiction in a fictional universe. Here's a video that thinks much more deeply about the economic implausibilities of Wakanda, and which also explores the importance of a free and open market for the health of a country (the workers' paradises of Venezuela and North Korea feature prominently in the discussion):






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