This Holiday season, ignore the ‘buy-small/buy-local’ nonsense (nationalreview.com)

Potentially good article with an interesting perspective that is spoiled (for me) by inflammatory rhetoric. Making a good argument does not have to include calling people with alternate opinions "halfwits" and "boobs".

Coke Pepsi good. Mmmmmmmm Starbucks yum.

There are red flags throughout the article, but once I hit the line below I knew the author couldn’t be trusted.

> “Through the market, we solve social problems together on a voluntary, collaborative basis”

What social problems have been solved by the market? I would argue that the market has exasperated social issues, especially the wealth gap.