A rifle is only as good as the rifleman’s ability to hit his target. Many a novice hunter, equipped with the most expensive rifle they could find, has gone into the field with a $50 scope picked up as an afterthought. They find their rifle is not as lethal as expected when, time and again, their apparently clean shot fails to hit their target. The problem is not the rifle. The problem is probably not the hunter’s aim. The problem is a sub-par scope.

©2016 Bloomberg View O1OO3F6JTSEI (Bloomberg View) — Yesterday, in discussing the lower- and middle-class workers who have been increasingly displaced by automation and trade, I wrote that both parties are simply reiterating longstanding policy preferences that are far more geared to the desires of their respective elites, than to the