Why did Steve Jobs do so much of his innovating in computers? Well, obviously, because thats what got his juices going. But its also the case that, because it was a virtually non-existent industry until he came along, its about the one area of American life that hasnt been regulated into sclerosis by the statist behemoth. So Apple and other companies were free to be as corporate as they wanted, and were the better off for it. The stunted, inarticulate spawn of Americas educrat monopoly want a world of fewer corporations and lots more government. If their demands for a $20 minimum wage and a trillion dollars of spending in ecological restoration and all the rest are ever met, there will be a massive expansion of state monopoly power. Would you like to get your iPhone from the DMV? Thats your American Autumn: an America that constrains the next Steve Jobs but bigs up Van Jones. Underneath the familiar props of radical chic that hasnt been either radical or chic in half a century, the zombie youth of the Big Sloth movement are a paradox too ludicrous even for the malign alumni of a desultory half-decade of Complacency Studies: Theyre anarchists for Big Government. Do it for the children, the Democrats like to say. Theyre the children we did it for, and, if this is the best they can do, theyre done for. 
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