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Whatever Happened to Free Market Capitalism?
Cultures Reap the Results They (Refuse to) Pay For
In the news this morning: A Desperate Shortage of Truck Drivers!
One shipping company exec lamented that, as a result, he was being forced to pass up lots of “lucrative” work.
Perhaps we can return to him later . . .
In the news on other recent mornings, we hear that people looking to hire physicians, nurses, teachers, medical coders, programmers, farmworkers, and more, face — wait for it — desperate shortages!
Well that’s odd, huh?
I mean — here in the home of The Greatest Market Economy the Universe Has Ever Seen — we have built-in mechanisms for addressing such issues, right?
We even refer to them as though they have actual legal force behind them.
Like: The Law of Supply & Demand.
You will doubtless remember this linchpin of Capitalism from the required Econ class you took in high school — it was often right after the required Civics class. Held in that space between the Art and Music Rooms? Down the hall from the Nurse’s Office?
Oh! Your school didn’t require — or even offer — Econ or Civics?