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West Side Story and Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions"

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Is Everything Free in America?

This is an interesting clip which gets at the heart of america's capitalistic system. Bernardo seems to represent a utopian vision of the world in which everything should be truly free and you don't have to pay for anything. The women don't mind paying for this personal freedom, and they are comfortable with the trade off. Sowell talks about this issue a great deal in his many economic books. In his view, it is only a competitive capitalist system which makes practising racial discrimination very cost ly to business men.

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