I'm not much of a TV news buff. No CNN, no Fox, no MSNBC, no ABC, no CBS, no NBC etc, but one show I thoroughly enjoy is Stossel (John Stossel) on Fox Business.
You can watch Stossel's June 5 episode, Real Social Justice, here…
Of course most "social justice activists" see government as the only means of ensuring that people genuinely needing help are taken care of. Yet, as we look at all the countries where the market has been removed in recent decades, Cuba, Venezuela and more, the results are unmistakable. People are worse off at the hands of the state rather than those "greedy" capitalists.
As John Stossel noted in this article, "Calling it "social justice" doesn't make it work."
He also noted in that same article at Reason.com that:
"Markets, in which individuals, not just rulers, have property rights, give people options. Businesses have an incentive to serve as many people as possible, regardless of gender or ethnic group. They also have an incentive to be nice—customers are more likely to trade with people who treat them fairly. Everyone gets to choose his own path."
Many of us, including social justice activists, rail at the ineffectiveness of government action and results, yet keep calling for them to become even larger (to do more), which in turn makes them even less effective.
So often these attempts at so-called justice lend to the continued downward spiral as government usurps more of our individual responsibilities.
