SPONTANEOUS ORDER. Econ Log asks, "How could government policy affect the distribution of job opportunities between "creative" and "non-creative" work? Would this necessarily be a good thing for government to do?" India West answers: "To echo Karlson's comments, I am not sure that government policy can do much about this. Industrial policy--the steel plant and the proposed aluminum smelter, to name two--is a proven money loser and possibly a politcal non-starter." (Those comments all refer to this post; thanks for doing me the honor of commenting on it.)

Governments exist to secure the rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That last is an archaic way of saying "find satisfying work." Securing the rights is something very different from assigning people to those pursuits, and identifying standards by which people will discover those pursuits is beyond our capabilities.