Science fiction writer and right-wing commentator Jerry Pournelle has some interesting thoughts on the decline of the US labor market for less-skilled workers. He links to the NYT piece on the growth in disability benefits I flagged a couple of weeks ago in the Fin. I don’t share his IQ determinism, but this isn’t central to the argument. The case would be even stronger if ‘human capital’ (innate ability plus education & training) were used instead. (Thanks to Peter Lawrence for alerting me to this).