A letter to the editor responding to John Ivison’s column “The disturbingly powerful allure of Avi Lewis’s ‘Gen Z socialism’.” The writer argues that Lewis’s proposals appeal not only to younger renters and job-seekers but to ordinary families struggling with monthly bills, and frames the leader’s platform as a response to four decades of wage suppression through privatization, deregulation, outsourcing, weakened unions, and tolerance of high unemployment — trends the letter says have sustained consumption only through rising household debt.
To reverse that concentration of wealth, the letter endorses targeted measures of the kind associated with Lewis’s program: strategic price controls, taxes on excess profits, and food and energy subsidies for the poorest households. It closes by invoking Justice Louis Brandeis’s line that a society can have either democracy or great wealth concentrated in a few hands, but not both.
Letter by Larry Kazdan of Vancouver. Full text at the source link above.