Terrific essay, Samir.

What resonated most with me was your argument that prosperity emerges from human ingenuity and that institutions largely determine whether that ingenuity is allowed to operate freely or is obstructed.

I also appreciated your framing of markets and entrepreneurship as systems that force continual feedback from reality. Political systems can postpone accountability for long periods of time. Markets and arithmetic eventually refuse to cooperate.

The perspective of someone who has actually lived inside the alternative system gives this piece a credibility that is difficult to replicate through theory alone.