Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Happy Thanksgiving
[Anthony Gregory, "Giving Thanks to Family, Friends and the Market," LewRockwell.com, 23 November 2004.]
Kansas Health will be taking a break for Thanksgiving until next week. Until then, you may find the following commentary of interest:
I also owe thanks to thousands of other people, without whom the Thanksgiving dinner I eat – along with most other meals I enjoy – would be beyond my reach.
I am referring to the grocers, the farmers, the storeowners, the truckers, the managers, the shipping industry, and all the other good folks who, thanks to the magnificent market economy, are able to serve their ends along with others’, mostly strangers’, in a system of mutual exchange and mutual benefit.
Think of all the incredible food present at a Thanksgiving dinner. Chances are, the vegetables, meats, spices and breads traveled a mighty distance to get to your table. Thanks to the market, most Americans can enjoy a dinner that even kings in centuries past could only dream of.
The market economy allows hundreds of millions of people, the world over, to cooperate in ways that no central planner could possibly contemplate, let alone direct, all to bring you your Thanksgiving dinner, all other meals you enjoy, and all the other necessities and luxuries of modern civilization. Every single day, billions of economic decisions are made and tasks carried out by hundreds of millions of individuals. Together, they achieve the unthinkable. Every day.
[Anthony Gregory, "Giving Thanks to Family, Friends and the Market," LewRockwell.com, 23 November 2004.]
Kansas Health will be taking a break for Thanksgiving until next week. Until then, you may find the following commentary of interest:
I also owe thanks to thousands of other people, without whom the Thanksgiving dinner I eat – along with most other meals I enjoy – would be beyond my reach.
I am referring to the grocers, the farmers, the storeowners, the truckers, the managers, the shipping industry, and all the other good folks who, thanks to the magnificent market economy, are able to serve their ends along with others’, mostly strangers’, in a system of mutual exchange and mutual benefit.
Think of all the incredible food present at a Thanksgiving dinner. Chances are, the vegetables, meats, spices and breads traveled a mighty distance to get to your table. Thanks to the market, most Americans can enjoy a dinner that even kings in centuries past could only dream of.
The market economy allows hundreds of millions of people, the world over, to cooperate in ways that no central planner could possibly contemplate, let alone direct, all to bring you your Thanksgiving dinner, all other meals you enjoy, and all the other necessities and luxuries of modern civilization. Every single day, billions of economic decisions are made and tasks carried out by hundreds of millions of individuals. Together, they achieve the unthinkable. Every day.
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