Chipotle Mexican Grill Endorses Welfare State

Townhall.com ^ | July 4, 2014 | Mark Skousen

[Kaslin]

“Hope that in the future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.” — George Saunders

Believe it or not, the above statement is printed on the bag issued by the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants.

Saunders, a fiction writer who teaches at Syracuse University, has been converted to Buddhism and has adopted an anti-consumer, anti-corporate-culture and anti-capitalist philosophy.

It’s a sad commentary when a major consumer corporation buys into his hippie-style philosophy and encourages people to live off of others and to adopt the welfare, no-workfare mentality.

Food, like any valuable good or service, is not free — it’s a scarce product that requires a great deal of work and effort.

Perhaps the Protestant Ethic of hard work, thrift and integrity are virtues of a past era in America.

Perhaps this quote from Professor Saunders’ best sums up his tragic philosophy that will no doubt, if followed, lead us into a road to serfdom, “Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.”

[lavaroise]

Working should be considered just like eating, some activity to look forward to. Maybe Chiplote has one of those corporate demoralizing policies so as to divide workers and prevent people from moving up.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Explanation of why they are doing this: "I mean, I wouldn't have done it if it was for another company like a McDonald's, but what interested me is 800,000 Americans of extremely diverse backgrounds having access to good writing. A lot of those people don't have access to libraries, or bookstores. Something felt very democratic and good about this."

What a smarmy, idiotic and condescending punk. Who in America does not have access to a bookstore of library? I read what I choose to read, not what some pseudo literati chooses for me to read. Likewise, I dine where I choose, and that won't be Chipotle.