Rich swamp-rats--"American consumers might have been spoiled..."

Sean Malone  Tyler Groenendal

• This is literally an argument from Atlas Shrugged.

"The rations of coal, established by Wesley Mouch, permitted the heating of homes for three hours a day.
There was no wood to burn...In makeshift contraptions of bricks and oil cans, professors were burning the books of their libraries, and fruit-growers were burning the trees of their orchards.
“Privations strengthen a people’s spirit,” wrote Bertram Scudder, “and forge the fine steel of social discipline.
Sacrifice is the cement which unites human bricks into the great edifice of society.”...Read all.

WASHINGTONPOST.COM-Opinion | Don’t rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes
American consumers might have been spoiled, but generations of them have also dealt with shortag