Craig Smith

I think the deciding factor too is like, who are you?

I can hear you rap for every day and I still don't know who you are as a person.

So as a comedian, all great comedians, they let you into who they are at their most vulnerable space.

So no battle rappers gonna get up there and be like, I was molested, my uncle me and I still came up here and killed you like Chucky.

You know, me being a rapper and a comedian, I understand that there's some weird delusion in rap where niggas feel like they have to be cool.

And that shit is, it's not, I don't mean to cut you off.

And that's just not corny because it's necessary for the culture, but that's something that won't make you a good comedian.

And so to be uncool and make people laugh at your uncool for an hour and a half,

to me is like, that's some hard shit to do.

Yeah.

It's a lovely phrase, and nobody can deny that.

One of the problems with it is that it's come to mean a particular set of modern ideas, a shorthand for a particular conception of how markets operate.

That's not quite the same as the uses that Smith puts it to in his work.

So if you look at the uses that Smith puts it to, it's a kind of metaphor for an unintended consequences explanation.

So he explains how something is produced out of social interaction without it being the intention of any of the actors.

Indeed.

But you can also look elsewhere in his work and find unintended consequence arguments with negative outcomes.

And it just so happens that the invisible hand as a nice phrase has become associated with positive cases of unintended consequences.

And that's led to it then becoming associated with a whole range of different arguments.