No Pizza For You!

Your humble blog author got a lesson in socialism early in life. This would all but guarantee that I would not become a socialist.

I was in elementary school at the time. Pizza Hut had just introduced its Personal Pan Pizza. That would make it about 1983. My mom bought Personal Pan Pizzas for me and my brother, and brought them to us for lunch, while they were still hot.

Other children saw this, and quickly a line formed. There must have been 30 children in line. Every child wanted a piece of pizza.

Now, the Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza has four slices. Had I given a single child a single slice, it would have been no big deal. However, if I had given everyone a slice who wanted one, there would have been none left for me. Not only that, there would have been no pizza for the vast majority of the children in line.

And that's the problem with socialism, you eventually run out of other people's money.