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| American Spectator |
American Thinker "Newly elected congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now appears ubiquitously in the news. At the end of February, she made headlines in a dispute with Ivanka Trump.
"Ocasio-Cortez's professional persona is a Millennial socialist who openly advocates for socialist policies. One of these socialist policies concerns the notion of a guaranteed income and jobs for all. She says:
. . .It's wrong that a vast majority of the country doesn't make a living wage. I think it's wrong that you can work 100 hours and not feed your kids. I think it's wrong that corporations like Walmart and Amazon can get paid by the government, essentially experience a wealth transfer from the public, for paying people less than a minimum wage.
. . . "Ultimately, labor, tragedy, and scarcity are the terms of our existence. So long as socialists refuse to accept that it is the common doom of man that we must labor, socialism will always fail.
We can never eradicate scarcity; we must accept it. We can never change the human condition to utopian; we must accept its tragic nature. We can never invalidate Original Sin and its punishment, labor; we must accept that every attempt to cure it will only introduce additional miseries than had we accepted its terms from the beginning.
"The next time someone advocates a living wage, guaranteed jobs, and any other socialist ideals, remember Kipling's dire warning:
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
References
Burke, E. (1797). Letters on a regicide peace. Indianapolis, IN: The Liberty Fund.
Melzer, A. (1990). The natural goodness of men: On the system of Rousseau's thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.
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