Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“People living in capitalist countries, even if less than perfectly free, don’t think about it. As customers, they place orders with their suppliers. As producers, they satisfy the orders of their customers. Consumers are the bosses, producers are at their service. And producers happily accept this role because they want money to, in their turn, order goods as consumers on markets. A free rather than less free economy naturally organizes itself around this principle because we produce in order to consume and not the other way around. For Christmas, you gave orders to your suppliers, not the other way around. A producer could not order you to buy from him. Only public producers — governments or suppliers backed by governments — can do this.” (12/24/24)
https://www.econlib.org/did-your-suppliers-order-you-to-do-something-for-christmas/