[ccmay]

I am presently reading Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. It amazes me that everyone has to learn the same harsh lessons about the supremacy of the free market again and again from one generation to be next. Rent control, for example, was an obvious failure in New York within a decade or two after it was implemented in WW2, but that didn't keep San Francisco and Santa Monica from trying it again in the 1970s. No doubt there will be another resurgence soon.

[fightinJAG]

Like a t-shirt I saw recently: “Communism only killed 100 million people. Let’s give it another chance!”

Sigh.

I guess it’s because, while it’s basic human nature to be selfish and wish for a life with no hardships or requirements, the other side of that is the tendency to believe that utopia is achievable.

Come to think of it, those really are the same thing, aren’t they?