I think what Mamma Ally does is of a remarkable importance that cannot be overstated. [screed warning] Think about it for a moment. I've been thinking about this for a long time, and had planned to call the show to discuss it.
Why don't we grow most of our own food? We buy most of our food at the market because it can be grown better and cheaper by someone else. Why don't we make our own shoes? We buy shoes manufactured by someone else, because someone else can make them far better and cheaper than we can. The same logic can be applied to a large variety of consumable goods, services and fixed assets; something most libertarians are hardly unaware of.
Now, why can't get you get great food, cheaper than you can prepare it yourself?
The state. Licensing, regulation and overall state interference not only makes food preparation expensive and impractical, it also restricts our options. Momma Ally is a hero because she cuts through the state interference and (by reputation--I've never had the honor) provides good food that people on a tight budget can afford. It's the way the market is supposed to work. In the society built on the lessons of Adam Smith, we should be buying, from chefs, a large portion of our freshly prepared food--just as most other things--and done that way, it should be higher quality and less expensive than most of us can do it ourselves.
In this way, Momma Ally's mission deserves even more vigorous support than the typical libertarian enterprise, because it has a profound affect on the people on this continent being able to feed its less wealthy. In the next decade or so, I predict this will be of paramount importance, as we experience the downfall of mercantilism and its continued harm to our economy.
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