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Burlington, MA | Consumerists are blindly selfish You won't find an industry critic or consumerist who won't insist the sector they concern themselves with is the least competitive sector to ever grace the planet Earth. 
A lot of folks feel that their personal concerns trump all other considerations, and therefore perceive anything that fosters the rights of other people to necessarily therefore be an infringement on their own rights. The idea that government is responsible for balancing the interests of various parties, instead of being responsible for making that one personal happy, is an anathema to some people.
And consumerists are among the worst. They want what they want how they want it for what they want to pay for it, without any regard whatsoever for what is necessary to justify providing what they want how they want it. They refuse to acknowledge that every dollar ever invested in serving them must compete with every other possible use for that dollar, and that serving them must therefore be the most profitable investment for that dollar, or else there is no justification for expecting that dollar to be invested as they would want it to be.
Investments for the sole benefit of one side of a transaction are called taxes. Why won't consumerists be honest about what they want, i.e., lots of new taxes to feed their insatiable self-serving, greedy appetite for getting what they want, without regard to the negative impact new taxes have on productivity or prosperity of the nation, long-term.
What is really funny is how many of these consumerists flip-flop around and start trash-mouthing businesses because they're not providing large enough returns on retirement investments. |
