Capitalism?

This past weekend, we did a significant amount of walking around downtown. The number of coffee shops is astounding. NYC is definitely caffeinated. What I noticed is that some are packed while others are empty.

On Bleeker Street, Do Not Feed The Tigers is next door to Julietta, both coffee shops with a different twist. DNFTT is packed, sometimes with a line, and Julietta is empty. This defines free market, competition, and hence capitalism.

Yet, when it comes to cannabis shops, the state won’t allow this. In alcohol, there can be liquor stores next to each other. There are so many rules and regulations in cannabis that are utterly antithetical to all other retail establishments.

The right screams that they want no government interference in their lives, although we must wear seat belts, we must have insurance for a car, and women can’t have abortions. Isn’t this impeding our freedom? I could create an endless list of government laws that we must abide by, which says to me that the right is talking out of two sides of their mouth although we already know that.

As crazy as the world is these days, I loved seeing two coffee shops next to each other and watching the consumer make the decision where to go.