Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
If 20% more of your friends and neighbors have jobs, not just job, but GOOD jobs that allow them security and freedom.......do you really care if the guy employing them has a bigger boat?
The kicker is that it can be said that he employs them BECAUSE he has a bigger boat.*

Take away the profit signal and you take away growth in the quantity and quality of goods. Taught in ECON 101 and demonstrated by history's communist regimes.


*More like the expectation of getting a bigger boat by taking on the risk of employing them for the task at hand.