While I hate to post political ads of any sort, I do believe this particular ad says a lot to the way the conversation in America has shifted from the question of how one might achieve the success others have to the question of how one might articulate the ways in which some people achieve success at the expense of others.
People lose sight of the fact that in a perfect capitalist society, trades and contracts are only made on the condition that both parties benefit more from making the trade than they do from choosing any other available option. The worker benefits because he believes his work is worth more than the salary a company gives him, a company believes the laborer’s work is worth at least the value of the laborer’s salary, and a consumer decides that one particular company sells a better product at a cheaper price than any other company does. This is a free society. We only receive what we agree to pay for and we only pay for things at a price we are willing to pay. Its a simple concept that is constantly criticized by people that can’t understand how something as complex as an economic system can be understood through such a simple concept as two sides agreeing to something that makes them both better off.
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