Let's be honest - anything that starts with "Posted by Tyler Durden" can't be brought down by profanity. It can only be illuminated as the horseshit that it tends to be.

Point by point:

1) Government cannot raise energy prices unless they are the monopoly sellers of energy. As the French nuclear reactors were sold off to private consortia, all they can do is increase taxes on energy. Which is not a "market solution." Market solutions are either free-market, in which case things quickly slant towards monopoly, or regulatory, in which case libertarians start tying energy policy into drug abuse.

2) The economy isn't the be-all, end-all measurement of happiness. The point of working for a living isn't to increase productivity, it's so you can live a long and happy life and raise a family. If my family fucks with your productivity, too fucking bad.

3) "Banning homework" is a far f'ing cry from "Banning homework in elementary school and junior high. You really think a 13-year-old is going to suffer by not having any homework after rolling out of school at 5:30pm? And, by the way, has nothing to do with the economy or legalizing heroin. "Limiting those that would do amazing things." I'd rather have kids surf Wikipedia all night than fill out busywork for their teachers. Hell, I'd rather have them watch Dr. Who.

4) Historically, the price breakdown between the wealthiest and the poorest in any healthy social structure is 20:1. check academia, check the clergy, check the military - that spread goes back before Charlemagne. Meanwhile, Esquire did a profile on someone who make 20k, someone who made 200k, someone who made 2m, someone who made 20m, someone who made 200m and someone who made 2b a year. That's a fuckload more than 20:1. Know what? Tax that sucka. Their work is not appreciated and they will not be rewarded because if you're making $2b a year there's a whole bunch of people who aren't being paid commensurately with their contributions. Period. Full stop.

4) Ever worked with the government? Ever worked with anyone in the government? The guys who go into public service are the slow, the middle management, the initiativeless. If you're doing civil service for more than a half decade it's because you're comfy with scads of bureaucracy. A lobbyist on their first tour through K street can effect more change than a lifetime civil servant. What you "believe" is far less relevant than what I can prove.

Go ahead and find parts poignant. I'm here to knock 'em down. That entire article was tinfoil hat terk er jerbs John Galt BS. You wanna talk government overreach? We can talk government overreach. But when some wingnut wants to tie energy policy to drug abuse through a long chain of Fountainhead, I'm not going to let it stand.

Tell you what: Find something that demonstrates, with numbers, that productivity and quality of life are tied. We'll talk. Until then, Dan Pink speaks for me.