After an interview recast of C. Apple on C. Rose Show, in which they remark that Apple became a writer because he couldn’t play football. They wandered thru the observation that many performers, and artists do what they do as an alternate to what they would have preferred doing.

Perhaps economists do economics because they cannot do business. They are unable to form, to found or even to function within the world of work. So they are left out of the action. They can only jostle for a seat in the bleachers. And most of them have a poor view of what the players are doing. The what and the why elude them. The poor players of the economy, economists.