Summary: Today's podcast reviews Tyler Cowen's new book Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation. The book's thesis is that machine intelligence and other factors are driving a trend toward much greater inequality in America. We discuss Tyler's conservative political persuasion, the book's relevance to discussion of technological unemployment, and hyper-competent man-machine "freestyle" chess teams. Will we build a favela in Texas? How cool it would be to attend a freestyle NASCAR rally? Will free wifi really be enough to keep the bottom 85% from revolting?
