The War on Demand – NYTimes.com.
Paul Krugman says:
“It’s becoming clear to me that a substantial number of writers on economics find the whole idea that the economy can suffer because people are too thrifty, insufficiently willing to spend, deeply repugnant. I’m the sort of person who finds the notion that sometimes virtue is vice and prudence folly interesting; but it’s clear that a number of people find that notion just plain evil. The world shouldn’t be like that — and therefore it isn’t.”
Some people can’t help but see everything as a moral allegory. Some of those see most everything as evil (except themselves and people like themselves), but most of them just can’t see anything they regard as evil.