P. J. O'Rourke: Capitalism Gets Rid Of Things That Don't Work [You Know, Like Babies]

About 56 million are aborted annually worldwide at the zenith of global capitalism.

[C]apitalism ... gets rid of stuff that doesn’t work. ... [T]here are other systems… that spend money in strange and silly ways. Of these systems, the biggest is big government, with its ethos of “If it works, tax it… If it doesn’t work, subsidize it.”

And of these other systems which spend money in strange and silly ways the smallest is the heterosexual nuclear family, with its ethos of never requiring work of children commensurate with the cost of subsidizing them, strange and silly as it may sound, nor of the elderly commensurate with the cost of subsidizing them.

Because some things are more important than working.