You’ll have to give up your gas car, insist progressive politicians. You’ll have to give up private transportation altogether, say the more radical environmentalists. You’ll have to give up your cheap incandescent lightbulbs for expensive LED bulbs — and we already have. You’ll have to give up eating meat, says the UN.
What do all these demands, among many others, have in common?
Forced scarcity.
What was once abundant — affordable cars, energy, lighting, juicy ribeyes, human happiness — will be made scarce by force of law.
You probably already know, or at least suspect, that the plan is to make us so poor (and if the low-population radicals get their way, so few) that we’ll be easier to control. Corral, even. But there’s an irony here so delicious that I want to bite into it like one of those soon-to-be-forbidden juicy ribeyes I’m so fond of grilling.
It used to be so easy for communists and other lefties to achieve scarcity: put them in charge and let them try to achieve plenty.
One of my favorite ’80s Cold War moments was when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to explain how prices work to Soviet strongman Mikhail Gorbachev. Thomas Sowell recounted the…
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