theramblingfool

It really depends on your needs. For modern development of projects with bloated file structures, having a hand-holding GUI like VSC that tames the file structure of the project really is nice.

If you're just occassionally dropping into headless filesystems to do some text editing, you're not going to invest in learning a new paradigm and you will likely use whatever default editor is presented to you. That is typically vim. For those who mindfully choose to set out and learn a new paradigm because they've decided to invest in a long-term time-saving skill, I doubt the vim/emacs divide is quite as stark as the numbers mentioned in the article.

I don't really buy that characterizing the current method as a 'fictitious stimulus' and inferior to "tax and redistribute."

As far as redistribution goes, the current method is functionally equivalent to a flat tax with progressive redistribution.