“The Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) new platform promises a world without bills. In their utopia, you’d see no rent check. No health insurance premium. No student loan repayment. No electricity bill. Life’s basics, including food, education, medicine, and transportation, would all become `common goods and utilities.'”
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Samizdata quote of the day – why prices matter editionAugust 16th, 2026 |
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In a world where `common goods and utilities’ are provided without bills who will be able to judge whether or not some local bureaucrat is receiving ‘more than their fair share’?
People are sensitised to someone else getting ‘more than their fair share’. Historically wage controls have always failed because workers try to maintain their ‘differentials’. Black markets flourish when `common goods and utilities’ are scarce.
Life’s basics, including food, education, medicine, and transportation, would all become `common goods and utilities’ – and more-or-less unobtainable, except, of course, for the ‘comrades of proven worth’.
Trump’s motorcade, for all his posturing, goes down the sane streets as everbody else. It was Moscow that had Zil lanes.
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