This is the archetype of magical thinking. You could just as well have said god will do those things with the amount of support you offered.<p>But it seems there is such an unquestioning faith in &quot;the invisible hand&quot; that the mere suggestion that misrembered high school economics may be an oversimplification, let alone in error, is viewed as unspeakable blasphemy.<p>Particularly ludicrous is:<p>&gt;4. Bad engineers? Yup, I&#x27;ve met some of them. They&#x27;ll eventually leave too when the system weeds them out.<p>But I&#x27;d ask the prophet of the invisible hand these questions:<p>Isn&#x27;t the current state necessarily exactly correct given the panglossian invisble hand?<p>How is it other&#x27;s using the same hand waving also claim the bay area economy is a permanent feature? Heretics I presume?<p>If the invisible hand is going to correct the situation, when will it happen? Next week? A hundred years? Or &quot;soon, my son, soon&quot;