NY City Billionaire
Offers Reward for Stolen Ice Cream
I decided to read it, hoping to find a rich man with a
heart. I saw it in my terms, you see; I hoped to read that a man had made an
offer-that-no-one-could-refuse to catch the nasty little tyke who had snatched
a child’s ice cream. I didn’t. I found a seemingly well overfed man called John
Catsimatidis.
He owns a chain of grocery stores called Gristedes, and his
bleat is that thieves are ‘wreaking havoc’ in his stores by stealing his (his)
ice cream and selling it to bodegas. You have to feel sorry for him, don’t you?
You have to ignore the fact that he seems to be missing a point here: that
crime is the natural corollary to a free market economy. The more free market
an economy becomes, the greater grows the motivation for crime. They’re
inseparable bedfellows. And he isn’t even offering a decent reward. It’s a mere
$5,000, which is rather less than insignificant loose change to a billionaire.
He reminded me again that while plants and animals achieve
their potential, human beings generally don’t.
So maybe somebody from NYC can tell me that Mr Catsimatidis
is actually a wonderful person who gives freely of his time and wealth to help
the poor and disadvantaged (because a totally free market economy is highly
competitive, so you inevitably have to have rather more poor and disadvantaged
people than rich and well-advantaged ones. The American Dream is a myth as long
as the human condition maintains its depressingly low level vibration.) That
would be nice.
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