▪️The pear meme is supposed to be a dunk on capitalism, but actually reveals its strength. The fact that pears can be grown in Argentina, harvested, kept fresh for a long journey to Thailand, packed, then shipped to America, and it costs just 63 cents for one of these is pretty efficient!
▪️The beauty of capitalism is that this arrangement of resources, out of infinite other possibilities, was discovered to be an efficient way to bring pear cups to the market. And it was all coordinated voluntarily in win-win trades. It’s pretty miraculous when you think about it.
▪️It’s the people who scoff at this being inefficient who should be ridiculed. They are the ones who are clearly ignorant of markets. Or if it really is so inefficient and wasteful, start a pear company to outcompete it, should be easy right?
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
