it has become harder for insiders to capture the gains from building more, opening up or liberalizing systems. And so they are closing off opportunities and limiting potential gains for everyone.
I have just started reading The Innovation Illusion, by Frederik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel. They take the view that capitalism’s main strength is its ability to adopt new and better methods while discarding what is inefficient. They also take the view that this strength has diminished in recent decades. If you read Tyler’s entire essay, you will see that his point is that the benefits from capitalism are tending to go toward people with less political power and the displacement from capitalism is tending to affect people with more political power.