It’s the prison-yard mindset: dominate or be dominated. And if you drive a compact car (or even yesteryear’s once-oversized SUV) while everyone else is getting a bigger, more intimidating SUV, you’ll be bullied off the roads at best.

But that is Freedom. Since the days of St. Ronnie, it has been accepted that the only morally justified basis for society is cutthroat competition, and any kind of cooperation or positive solidarity would be Godless Communism.