Poor Elie Mystal, whom I blasted on the Tom Woods Show some time ago.
He just joined the Made-Up-Story-About-My-Kid-That-Just-Happens-To-Have-An-Ideological-Lesson club.
On Twitter he wrote:
"My 7yo is doing a math worksheet and it's telling him that the eraser (37 cents) costs more than the pencil (18 cents) and he's OUTRAGED. 'If you're poor and you can't afford the eraser, you can't correct your mistakes. BUT IF YOU'RE RICH you can erase ALL your mistakes.'"
First: we all know his seven-year-old did not say this or anything resembling it. We can know that with certainty.
But it's just so darn stupid on so many levels.
Suppose the pencil were more expensive. Then the imaginary remark from his 7-year-old can be, "Because of capitalism, the poor can never express themselves. They can only erase something they never wrote."
And progressives would swoon over THAT.
Or if pencils and erasers were priced the same, the imaginary remark would be, "Capitalism thinks creativity and error are to be valued the same."
SHUT UP, YOU PHONY 7-YEAR-OLD.
Regardless of who said it, this is not the thought process of a successful or even self-respecting person.
Old-fashioned elbow grease, as opposed to meditating on abstractions about "capitalism," is what gets people ahead.
But not all elbow grease is created equal.
You can spend lots of time working and still earn nothing, because you've been doing it all wrong.
Spend this time under house arrest getting it right.
Here's your step-by-step guidance.
More than half-off sale ends at midnight:
Tom Woods