The gentleman who produced the commercial seems to be correct. People don’t learn from history. When we walk through an American supermarket, we have a wealth of beautiful products from which to choose. When reading about life in socialist countries, you see people standing in line for hours to purchase an inferior cut of protein, you see empty shelves or inferior products on those shelves, tiny apartments, fear of reprisal for speaking their minds—it’s astonishing that people don’t appreciate the opportunities we have here to create nice lives for ourselves and families.
As of September 2012, the gentleman is worth US$4.6 billion. He is the 77th richest person in the United States.