That’s the question Don Boudreaux explores in a Wall Street Journal piece today. His point is that if we treated the need for food the same way we treat the need for education, we would have a pathetically inefficient system. (But if we did have a politicized system of food distribution, no doubt its defenders would reply to critics, “So, do you want people to starve? That’s what would happen under your terrible capitalistic system.”)
Some of the comments are hilariously foolish. Statists make themselves look very silly when they try to deal with challenges to their cherished pet ideas.
