As he sits in his air conditioned shelter, on a manufactured chair, typing into his electronic device, using software (someone’s intellectual property) to decry how unfair is the system that created them.
You’re hilarious. Has the irony that people like you are paid to produce propaganda against the free market escaped your grasp? Meanwhile the “invisible hand” doesn’t pay her defenders. The free market keeps on rewarding producers and providing better and better goods and services to consumers. Oh the humanity!
For those victims of public education, the term “capitalist” was adopted by Marx as a means to establish a scapegoat. Relying on the dual sins of pride and envy among his disciples, he labeled the people who SHARE THEIR RESOURCES “capitalist” and described them as greedy and glutinous. An altogether bizarre description, even in 19th century Germany since Marx’s “capitalists” were not only investing in business startups, but their charity provided schools and hospitals.
So the real reason that Marxist socialism (or whatever you’re advocating) doesn’t take hold is that “the Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction” works. In a free market the sovereignty of the individual supersedes the collective. Individuals are free to participate and reap the benefits, or not. The free market works off the principle of voluntary exchange. No one can order you to purchase something (health insurance) no one can deny you the opportunity to procure a service that you can afford. (Charlie Gard) The more we participate in the free market, the more the free market offers in return.
It is the height of hypocrisy to demand the end of the free market after 200+ years of progress just so you can reap the benefits without any commitment to participate. For 200 years other people have toiled and suffered to create the marvelous standard of living we now can enjoy if only we participate. Think of the Kansas sod buster of the 1880s who walked his horse drawn wagon hundreds of miles just for the opportunity to live in a hut made of slabs of turf. Is anybody doing that today? I doubt those evil fat cats on Wall Street are interested in denying you that opportunity.
So thank you Miss Invisible Hand! Thank you free market. Thank you for making my chief concern how not to get too fat from your generosity. Thank you for the countless healthcare industries that have spun off from advances in medical science. Thank you for moving us from the Iron Age into the Hydrocarbon Age! Thank you for the automation that enables us to be so productive yet still enjoy hours of leisure time.
