The Left’s Big Pitch: Embrace A Worse Life In The Name Of Equality

[Riddick]

Long cherished as a crown jewel of Left-wing governmental policy, the UK’s National Health Service has been plagued by massive resource shortcomings, requiring rationing of critical infrastructure and care. Now, citizens are waiting up to 12 hours for ambulances.

“It’s a near-crisis situation that experts say reveals a breakdown of the compact between Britons and their revered National Health Service,” the NY Times reported, “that the government will provide responsible, efficient health care services, mostly free, across all income levels.”

There can be only one excuse for such signal failure to serve the prosperity of your citizenry: the chimera of equality. This, in fact, is the clarion call of the Left: that human beings sacrifice well-being and prosperity on behalf of the cult of equal distribution of resources.

Indeed, members of the Left are constantly asking citizens to simply reframe their perspectives on prosperity entirely. Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, says we should dispense with economic measures like gross domestic product (GDP) in favor of “what matters most: climate action, sustainability, inclusivity, global cooperation, health and well-being.”

In fact, he says, “We might even find we can live with such a scenario quite happily!” The end goal will be ending “inequality & the unfairness that underpins it” by enshrining “universal provision of social assistance,” which will require governments “rewrite some of the rules of the game & permanently increase their roles.”

And we will all learn to love such intervention, because it will be done in the name of a higher value: equality. Not equality of rights, but equality of outcome; not equality of value, but equality of resources. President Biden’s entire economic agenda is built around the notion of economic mediocrity rooted in a self-proclaimed higher justice.

The problem with this philosophy is that it removes the incentive for all that creates prosperity: work, creativity, thrift, responsibility, & that removal means more misery for everyone. Societies that embrace governmental command & control regress into stagnation & then economic collapse. But at least we will have achieved equality!

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