Every time I set foot in a big box store, I think about the time Spouse had a panic attack in the dish soap aisle.
He'd just returned from six months of teaching in Ethiopia, where his soap-buying choices were "soap" or "no soap." The sheer variety of dish soaps broke him a little.
That and the fact that we have 500 dish soap options but zero public healthcare options.
"the market will solve it"
the market is the reason we have 500 dish soap options but you can't afford insulin to stay alive long enough to pick one, brenda
@danialexis the invisible hand of the market only works for luxuries and commodities. It fails even as a thought experiment for services you can't live without, like medical care. It's not like you can shop around for a cheaper alternative when you collapse with a heart attack; you get what you get, and it costs what it costs.