Morning Jolt: How the Socialists and the Protectionists Understand Each Other

[Capitalism] encourages and requires fierce individualism, self-interested disregard for the other, and resentment of arrangements into which one deposits more than he or she withdraws. As a business-savvy friend once remarked: Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows what they're doing. Capitalism is an ideology that is far more encompassing than it admits, and one that turns every relationship into a calculable exchange. Bodies, time, energy, creativity, love — all become commodities to be priced and sold.

That's Elizabeth Breunig, writing in a newspaper owned by the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos.

Really? "Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows what they're doing?" What exactly is Amazon, then? Is it somehow exploitative when you send money to Amazon and they send you things you want? Who's being exploited?

Is the corner store more or less ...

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How the Socialists and the Protectionists Understand Each Other Jim Geraghty [Capitalism] encourages and requires fierce individualism, self-interested disregard for the other, and resentment of arrangements into which one deposits more than he or she withdraws. As a business-savvy friend once remarked: Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows what they're doing. Capitalism is an ideology that is far more encompassing than it admits, and one that turns every relationship into a calculable exchange. Bodies, time, energy, creativity, love — all become commodities to be priced and sold. That's Elizabeth Breunig, writing in a newspaper owned by the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos. Really? "Nobody gets rich off of bilateral transactions where everybody knows what they're doing?" What exactly is Amazon, then? Is it somehow exploitative when you send money to Amazon and they send you things you want? Who's being exploited? Is the corner store more or less ... Read More Top Stories Sessions's Sacramento Appearance Gets Heated as DOJ Sues California over Immigration Mairead McArdle "How dare you needlessly endanger our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open-borders agenda," Sessions... Federal Court Extends Workplace Sex-Discrimination Protections to People Who Identify as... Jack Crowe Federal Court Extends Workplace Sex-Discrimination Protections to People Who Identify as... ADVERTISEMENT How to Defeat Populism Michael Brendan Dougherty Liberals and technocrats have four options with which they can confront the populist... Russian Double Agent Poisoned on British Soil Jack Crowe The spy and his daughter were "targeted specifically," according to British... The New Corn Laws: Why Housing Costs Are So High Gabriel Rossman Relax constraints on the housing supply: In many cities, the high costs drive out the working and middle... U.S. Allies Respond To Trump's Tariffs With Trade Pact Jack Crowe Eleven U.S. allies intend to sign a sweeping trade agreement Thursday in response to President Donald Trump's proposed steel and aluminum... ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left Roger Scruton "A masterpiece...[Scruton] neither ridicules nor abuses the writers he considers; he patiently deconstructs them...laying bare their warped assumptions and empty pretensions." — Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal LEARN MORE Photo Essays Cartoons of the Day: March 8th, 2018 World's Richest People ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.