Giving thanks

 

We hardly need yet another American holiday here — some of us would still rather make colourful explosions on Nov 5 than dress up as a ghouls a week before — but the idea of Thanksgiving is a good one, i.e., not to take for granted things and people who shouldn't be.

In that respect, I liked this brief shout out* to those everywhere who keep all the wheels running ...

My special thanks this year go to business, both large and small. Business is the mainstay of the free Capitalist economy. What amazes me is how innovative and productive business continues to be given how much the Capitalist—i.e. free—portion of the economy has shrunk under the weight of the massive, and still growing, regulatory welfare state. Add to this that business, especially the most successful, is the most persecuted minority today. It is under attack, not for its vices, but for its virtues. By whom? By egalitarians, who label their money-earning success as "greed." With all of the Woke claptrap about “oppressed” groups, business is somehow not among them. Yet business gets blamed for every societal ill, even as it manages to keep us all alive and somehow moving forward under the meagre remnants of Capitalistic economic freedom—and still make a profit. So, here’s a shout out to business: THANK YOU for your profit-seeking service.

* I've removed the writer's thanks to specifically American businesses. The sentiment should go worldwide.