RJS,

Yes, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that naturally balances out the economic problems that society faces. Except, it doesn’t. Do very many people even believe in it, anymore? Other than the very wealthy (whom it benefits to state belief in it), Libertarians (and not all of them) or right-wingers, including tRumpists?

Which are you?

Even in your overly-detailed reply to Guy Baehr, you state many things as fact when they are not only non-factual but also proven wrong. Very tRump-like of you, with ‘alternate facts’ being all the rage among your fellow rightist's these days.

Without you having to state it, which would reveal that you agree with it, you implicitly support “supply-side, trickle-down” economics. I’ve been hearing that same disproven ideological crap since Reagan, forty years ago and I wasn’t stupid enough to believe it then and am not now.

Do you really believe that older minimum wage workers have little else to do? Some, yes, but the majority have to earn their living that way. Unlike you, many people never have the luxury of being able to attend college and many weren’t able to complete high school because they HAD to work. I’m sorry you didn’t have to grow up in one of those families because if you had, you’d understand a great deal more about the world than you do now, despite all of your formal education- must’ve been nice growing up middle-class but not everyone does.

You spew off inaccurate, misleading talking pints of the Right and of Libertarianism, never even considering that all you know and believe may well be wrong. But follow your beliefs, regardless of what’s going on in the real world, and assume Adam Smiths’ economic theories are still valid (if they ever were to anyone other than the wealthy)and cast your vote for tRump and his ilk, while the vast majority of Americans suffer the daily grind of supporting the 1-percenters.