{"id":1783113,"date":"2022-12-21T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783113"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:33:07","slug":"the-lefts-big-pitch-embrace-a-worse-life-in-the-name-of-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-big-pitch-embrace-a-worse-life-in-the-name-of-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Big Pitch: Embrace A Worse Life In The Name Of Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lefts-big-pitch-embrace-a-worse-life-in-the-name-of-equality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783113&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This week, The New York Times released a long expose of the shortcomings of the United Kingdom\u2019s National Health Service. Long cherished as a crown jewel of Left-wing governmental policy, the NHS has been plagued by massive resource shortcomings, requiring rationing of critical infrastructure and care. Now, citizens are waiting up to twelve hours for ambulances. \u201cIt\u2019s a near-crisis situation that experts say reveals a breakdown of the compact between Britons and their revered National Health Service,\u201d the Times reported, \u201cthat the government will provide responsible, efficient health care services, mostly free, across all income levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There can be only one excuse for such signal failure to serve the prosperity of your citizenry: the chimera of equality. This, in fact, is the clarion call of the Left: that human beings sacrifice wellbeing and prosperity on behalf of the cult of equal distribution of resources. Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, says as much in his book, The Great Narrative: we should dispense with economic measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of \u201cwhat matters most: climate action, sustainability, inclusivity, global cooperation, health and well-being.\u201d In fact, says Schwab, \u201cWe might even find we can live with such a scenario quite happily!\u201d The end goal will be ending \u201cinequality and the unfairness that underpins it\u201d by enshrining \u201cuniversal provision of social assistance,\u201d which will require that governments \u201crewrite some of the rules of the game and permanently increase their roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie says the same when he argues in favor of government nationalization of all wealth and then redistribution of that wealth on a per capita basis \u2026 every generation. This would amount to a complete rupture of property rights \u2013 and this in turn would mean the end of innovation, since societies that dispense with property rights and profit margins regress into stagnation and then economic collapse. But at least we will have achieved Bouie\u2019s goal: equality!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, members of the political Left are constantly asking citizens to simply reframe their perspectives on prosperity entirely. Jerusalem Demsas, writing in The Atlantic, calls on Americans to rethink whether homeownership is worth pursuing, explaining, \u201cpushing more and more people into homeownership actually undermines our ability to improve housing incomes for all.\u201d Indeed, rather than all aspiring to buy houses and some succeeding, Demsas calls for \u201cpublic investment in rental-housing quality\u201d as well as government \u201crent-stabilization policies.\u201d None of this will make it easier for anyone to own a home, but it will make everyone more equal in their government-sponsored tenancy.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s entire economic agenda is built around the notion of economic mediocrity rooted in a self-proclaimed higher justice. Paul Waldman of The Washington Post posited this week that Biden had launched an \u201ceconomic policy revolution\u201d rooted in fighting \u201cinequality.\u201d This would require \u201cmore active government intervention in the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And we will all learn to love such intervention, because it will be done in the name of a higher value: equality. Not equality of rights, but equality of outcome; not equality of value, but equality of resources. The problem with this philosophy is that it removes the incentive for all that creates prosperity: work, creativity, thrift, responsibility. And removing that incentive means more misery for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, The New York Times released a long expose of the shortcomings of the United Kingdom\u2019s National Health Service. 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