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Competition and Capitalism Are Good For Your Soul

September 24, 2015 by V the K

In the area were I live, there are a number of different supermarket options. There’s a Kroger that’s nearly as nice as the Wegman’s “Back East,” and another Kroger that’s as a nasty as the Weis “back East.” There’s a chain of upscale fresh/organic supermarkets, clean and immaculate. And Another large supermarket is in the midst of a massive renovation and upgrade to keep up with the nice Kroger across town.

Someone like Bernie Sanders thinks this is a terrible waste of resources. Supermarkets remodeling when “children are going hungry?” Oh, how awful. And why do there need to be so many different options for people to get their food? And, you know, people don’t always make the kind of nutrition choices the Government would like them to.  Wouldn’t it be more efficient if food were simply distributed at plain gray warehouses by unionized Government employees. You would be assigned one food distribution center in your district and that would be the one you were required to use. (Or pay exorbitantly to use members-only markets accessible only to party apparatchiks and elites, like in the Soviet Union.) That would, the socialists believe, free up money for things like public education.

Leftists believe they know what’s best for everyone, but the philosophy they embrace is ultimately dehumanizing. Getting your allotment of rations from the State-Run Ration Distribution Center might possibly be more efficient if the system were run to the perfection leftists believe they can achieve (Spoiler Alert: they can’t and it wouldn’t be. Venezuela tried this, it doesn’t work). But in robbing people of the opportunity for choice and self-sufficiency, they also would make the world a far more drab and dreary place.

What Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and Pope Francis are pushing is a philosophy that ultimately dehumanizes and crushes the soul.

Filed Under: Free (or Private) Enterprise

Comments

  1. alanstorm says

    September 24, 2015 at 12:08 pm - September 24, 2015

    Lefties think “Harrison Bergeron” and “1984” were instruction manuals.

    Sane people recognize them as warnings.

  2. Steve says

    September 24, 2015 at 6:12 pm - September 24, 2015

    Harrison Bergeron is the template for Common Core. If they actually believed in equality Common Core math would copy Germany/Japan but it copies Haiti instead.

    Not willingly having sex with blacks is just as racist as knowing crime statistics.
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/no-blacks-is-not-a-sexual-preference-it-s-racism.html

  3. KCRob says

    September 24, 2015 at 7:18 pm - September 24, 2015

    I saw something today from the Houston Chronicle about Boris Yeltsin’s visits to various supermarkets in Houston during his 1989 visit. He was amazed and told his companions that if Russians that stand in lines for bread saw US markets, they’d have a revolution.

    And then there’s Venezuela where toilet paper is a hard to get and they’re looking at having to import oil.

  4. Craig Smith says

    September 25, 2015 at 12:08 am - September 25, 2015

    Any system that requires everyone to be unselfish in order to work is doomed to failure.

    Any system that pits one set of selfish people against another so that the least selfish wins will succeed.

    This is why capitalism works. In competition, the business that takes in the least profit per item usually is the one the succeeds.

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