Posted on 09/21/2023 7:58:10 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Son, you’re eight years old now, and you’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there’s no such thing as the “invisible hand of the market.”
Why did your mother and I lie to you? Well, we didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue, stories that we hoped would add magic to your childhood and also reassure you that capitalism is a good and fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos.
And the thing is, back when Mom and I first told you about the invisible hand, we actually believed in it ourselves—not as a real hand, of course, but as a metaphor for a fundamental principle of economics. The principle I naively thought would save us when I got laid off, but then our mortgage went underwater, and it turned out that not one of Mom’s 223 Facebook friends wanted to get in on that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity she was pursuing at Lularoe.
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Written by a woman, and she keeps saying “when your mother and I …”.
She a lesbo?
Good one...
What kind of dipsheet column is this?
John Adams wisely said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The same holds true for Capitalism. It only works good in a moral society. Today’s America is so corrupted everything good is destroyed.
John Adams wisely said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The same holds true for Capitalism. It only works good in a moral society. Today’s America is so corrupted everything good is destroyed.
Free Markets do not include use of Force.
When capitalism fails, it is usually for 1 of 2 reasons. Government intervention in free markets, or criminal behavior. Sometimes, one in the same.
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