The Importance of Conspicuous Consumption

Larry Summers has kind of made a career in the last few years of being consistently wrong about a lot of things. So when he, you know, is filming from a beach in what looks like vacation and says we should have higher unemployment, it looks like not just callousness, but a complete misunderstanding of what's happening in the world. And I think that's part of what people distrust. He's not backdrop was not gaudy or anything like that. It's just in the context of what he's saying, it feels inappropriate.