Our old crock pot gave up the ghost after 20 years and we bought a new one. I’m still counting the improvements in crock pot technology that 20 years of free market competition yielded for less money than the original.
- a slim oval design
- glass lid with vent holes
- ergonomic lid handle with a spoon carrier
- built-in silicon lid gasket
- transport clips for locking the lid down for trips to pot lucks
- removable spoon drip tray
- bracket for holding the hot lid which also spins around to provide a cord wrap structure
- easily cleanable aluminum housing
- lighter weight heating element
- flip up silicon handles for secure handling
- 3 stage heating element
No doubt these many improvements did not come from one source. They came about from multiple innovations by many companies competing to win customers in the free crock pot market.
Imagine how many of these innovations would not have occurred in a government-controlled crock pot market. Imagine how the absence of competition coupled with the presence of federal oversight and regulation would have cemented that 20 year-old crock pot design into our culture.
Consider the medicare-subsidized and fda-regulated health care industry in America, or the new federally-managed American automobile industry. Consider driving a 50-year-old Chevy on the island of Cuba.
Governments don’t adapt very well. It’s not in their nature.
The problem with the left’s legislative agenda for America, which they seem unable to adequately describe in less than a thousand pages of federal spaghetti-legalize, is we’ll never know all of the wonderful human products, behaviors, solutions, and creativity that they preclude from coming into existence.