{"id":62640,"date":"2025-12-31T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=62640"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:47:23","slug":"socialism-and-its-tendency-to-turn-things-that-were-once-very-normal-into-a-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/31\/socialism-and-its-tendency-to-turn-things-that-were-once-very-normal-into-a-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism and its tendency to turn things that were once very normal into a luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free market economy has achieved levels of prosperity never before seen in the history of humanity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/10\/is-spain-better-off-than-when-sanchez-came-to-power-lets-look-at-some-data\/\">Is Spain better off than when S\u00e1nchez came to power? Let's look at some data<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/01\/tax-echelon-in-spain-the-socialist-government-imposes-measures-typical-of-a-dictatorship\/\">Tax Echelon in Spain: the socialist government imposes measures typical of a dictatorship<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this economic perspective, <strong>the car has become an affordable item for many people<\/strong>, becoming a common means of transport for all kinds of journeys. <strong>This achievement has expanded travel possibilities to levels never before seen in history<\/strong>, allowing our society to enjoy a freedom that few had in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This should be something to celebrate for everyone, but <strong>there are still people who put their ideology above the well-being of others<\/strong>, perhaps because it bothers them that the free market economy they detest has achieved what the political policies they advocate could never have. Perhaps that's why <strong>the left is making enormous efforts to destroy all the progress made by the free market<\/strong>, with a single objective: to subject us all to increasingly strict control by the State \u2014that is, by the leftist politicians who are striving to expand it ever further.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Spain's Director General of Traffic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autobild.es\/motor\/pere-navarro-director-dgt-tajante-no-nos-podemos-permitir-mover-cada-dia-1-500-kilos-para-desplazar-una-sola-persona_6915512_0.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the socialist Pere Navarro, described the use of a car by a single person as a luxury we cannot afford<\/a>. He's referring to private citizens, of course. <strong>Politicians like Pere Navarro travel everywhere in official cars paid for by everyone.<\/strong> They don't consider it a luxury, just as they don't consider it a luxury that people like Pere Navarro receive <a href=\"https:\/\/transparentia.newtral.es\/ficha\/pere-navarro-olivellla\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a public salary of 97,000 euros<\/a>, or that they travel on official planes and enjoy all kinds of comforts and privileges at the taxpayers' expense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Socialism is a disastrous ideology that tends to turn things that were once commonplace into luxuries<\/strong>. Cars are a prime example, but they're not the only one. Due to the disastrous policies of the coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro S\u00e1nchez, <strong>items like olive oil, fish, meat, and eggs are also becoming luxuries<\/strong>, with increasingly higher prices for consumers. Beyond the shopping basket, <strong>the disastrous housing policy of the Spanish left has turned an apartment into an unattainable luxury for many<\/strong>, though not for the high-ranking socialist officials appointed through nepotism who live like kings at our expense.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, in the economic sphere there are no simple problems or magic solutions, but <strong>if one thing has become clear, it's that socialism is a disaster and the market economy works<\/strong>, especially when the State isn't eager to appropriate an ever-increasing share of wealth, fiscally fleecing its citizens. <strong>Spain has a clear path for certain things to cease being a luxury and return to what they once were:<\/strong> affordable goods that can be purchased without needing a salary as high as Pere Navarro's. <strong>Obviously, socialism is not that path, but the opposite.<\/strong> Just look at what that odious ideology has done to a once prosperous country like Venezuela, and not only in the economic sphere.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/54802032804\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free market economy has achieved levels of prosperity never before seen in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10404],"tags":[693,2721,1986,10796],"class_list":["post-62640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-pere-navarro","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}