Starvin Larry

It seems harmless. A children’s athletic competition where everyone gets a blue ribbon or gold medal, regardless of outcome. The replacement of traditional letter-based grading with a pass-fail system, or grading on a curve. Flatten or eliminate the distance between the best and the worst, avoiding hurt feelings and damaged self-esteems.

Notice whose feelings are ignored. When rewards are equalized, there is no way to elevate the worst without devaluing the best. Bad as this is, it is merely the first step towards not equality of outcome, distasteful as that would be, but rather a world where the worst are rewarded and the best are punished, if they’re allowed to exist at all. A world characterized not by the moronic bromide: “Everybody wins!” but the barbaric slogan: “Losers Take All!”

Nothing about capitalism arouses more fear than its primacy of competitive prowess. To get anything out of a capitalistic economy…