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    tomder55 Posts: 1,742, Reputation: 346
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    Jun 28, 2023, 04:02 AM
    Too many choices
    Remember this scene from 'Moscow on the Hudson ' when the Russian defector went to the grocery store and was overwhelmed by the choices of coffee he could purchase ?

    Moscow On The Hudson Coffee Coffee Coffee - YouTube

    I never imagined that having too many choices was a problem . But evidently it is to Adam Fleming Petty of 'The Atlantic' .


    'The Paradox at the Grocery Store'


    'What people really need is less choice, not more.'
    On a recent afternoon, while running errands before I had to pick up my kids from school, I froze in the orange-juice aisle of a big-box store. So many different brands lay before me: Minute Maid, Simply, Tropicana, Dole, Florida’s Natural, Sunny D — not to mention the niche organic labels. And each brand offered juices with various configurations of pulp, vitamins, and concentrate. The sheer plenitude induced a kind of paralysis: Overwhelmed by the choices on offer, I simply could not make one. I left the store without any orange juice.

    The Answer to Grocery-Option Overload - The Atlantic

    I'll have to use one of the President's lines here.... ' come on man !'

    He writes that he prefers stores with less option like Trader Joe's . Guess what Adam .....That too is a choice. That's what free market capitalism is all about . But he prefers state mandate communism where consumers are told what they can buy when it is actually available.
    He admits that his niche grocery stores sometimes don't have what he wants. What to do ? Go to those big grocery stores that have many choices is one option. Or he could settle for something else or to do without. That happens often in communism.

    Some people prefer that
    Bernie Sanders: Don't Need 23 Choices of Deodorant, 18 Choices of Sneakers When Kids Are Going Hungry (reason.com)

    The thing about Bolshevik Bernie is that he would force all of us to live under such a system because he claims the moral authority as stupid as he sounds ( too many deodorant choices are why people go hungry.)
    It is his choice to go to a store with limited choices . The problem is that he would limit everyone elses choices too.
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    jlisenbe Posts: 5,020, Reputation: 157
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    Jun 28, 2023, 05:32 AM
    Not being content to have his own personal freedom, this guy wants to control everyone else's freedom. It is so typical of liberal dems.

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