But the employees at the Washington Post have been, for far longer than Jeff Bezos has owned it, almost universally in favor of an ideology that is injurious to prosperity, entrepreneurship, and behavioral success.
Another way to say this is that the destruction of wealth — personal, community, and national — has been the chief philosophical pursuit at the Washington Post for quite some time.
Ronald Reagan summed up that philosophy pretty well:
Well, Bezos has been subsidizing it since 2013.
The Washington Post has been losing money hand over fist for more than a dozen years now, and it’s proof of the veracity of another famous saying, this one by Charles Krauthammer, among others: “That which cannot continue, won’t.”
You can’t keep losing money forever. Things don’t exist to diminish. If you don’t produce anything, you will ultimately perish.
And the Washington Post has been losing its owners money for two decades now.
Yes, but money isn’t everything, right?
It’s too bad that sanctimony can’t be monetized. Otherwise this would sustain the Post into the next millennium: