ABSTRACT
Angel and Collins sing about their desire to open a restaurant in Sante Fe, New Mexico. This song shows one of the benefits that free markets provide – the ability for workers to sort themselves into the tasks they most enjoy. The right to choose one’s own occupation may seem like a fundamental human right to people who have always had this option, but it is a right that has not always existed throughout history. For example, the government of the former Soviet Union often assigned workers to specific jobs. Worse still, sometimes these jobs were far from a worker’s home, forcing them to relocate. This lack of freedom wasn’t just restricted to workers, as students were often assigned to a school based on the government’s future job expectations for that student (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 2015; Federation of American Scientists 2000).
