Will finish reading in more detail later. But this at the end caught my eye:
“There is something else that should be mentioned. The American consumer, the individual, is both a buyer and a boss. When you leave a store in America, you may find a sign saying, “Thank you for your patronage. Please come again.” But when you go into a shop in a totalitarian country — be it in present-day Russia, or in Germany as it was under the regime of Hitler — the shopkeeper tells you: “You have to be thankful to the great leader for giving you this.”
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Reminds me of “You didn’t build that.”
It's the difference between a peaceful, free existence as an individual and an enslaved existence as a piece of state property.
We better be grateful for Dear Leader's generosity. How frightening is that? When we do away with a truly free society (which can't exclude a free market), this is the bitter fruit. Man was not intended to live as a slave.