Miffed. Vexed. How come no one talks about the economist Milton Friedman? The short, balding, portly Nobel Prize winner is a seriously unpopular subject these days.
Milton was a proponent of unregulated free market economics. It’s nutty by today’s need for safety and accountability and all that adult-level stuff. But the meat of it is that people achieve social mobility by producing and selling goods and services. The earnings made possible so doing enable ordinary Dicks and Janes to live as they so choose. It becomes their choice to be generous humanitarians or greedy horrible grinches. Milton is hated, especially, by Marxists. I think Milton is keen. Maybe Karl Marx was a jerk. Ever notice how greedy and power-nuts people get when they gain control over public money? Is there a UPMC executive in the house?
The reason for giving Milton a posthumous chin chuck is because the U.S. is no longer a country, it’s an institution. Pittsburgh is no longer a town, it’s an occupied territory. Free enterprise is history, and as a result people are in a goofy state of compliance. Tsk, tsk.
Bruce Reisner
Perry South