According to Corey Robin, professor of political science at Brooklyn College, "the socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends upon your whim, when the basic needs of life compel submission to the market and subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination. Socialists want to end that domination: to establish freedom from rule by the boss, from the need to smile for the sake of a sale, from the obligation to sell for the sake of survival." He continues, “The socialist believes that making things free makes people free.”
Freedom "from the need to smile for the sake of a sale?" The freedom to be rude? Impolite? Disinterested? And, more importantly, who is it who is making these free things and why?
You can’t have socialism in a scarce good or service, especially among strangers. Instead, it has to be allocated. Allocated. By someone. And usually to the managers first.
This is a professor at a university and this is simply not serious thinking.
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