… is this recent Facebook post by Sheldon Richman:
A tragically overlooked fact: those who control the means of production DO have a capricious and demanding boss — the consumer.
DBx: Indeed. And yet protectionists and industrial-policyists want to weaken consumers’ freedom to spend their incomes as they choose; protectionists and industrial-policyists aim to increase the power of capitalists and of the elites who man the government. The great lie is that protectionists and industrial-policyists, through their machinations, will enrich and ennoble ordinary people.
