: As for poverty, under capitalism, no poor man is prohibited from creating a fortune--"The state, in its magnanimous equality, grants to rich and poor alike the right to sleep under bridges, beg for food, etc." -Anatole France.
: Wealth is the result of man's ability to think applied to the sphere of production and trade. Reason, ultimately, is the source of all wealth.
So the "sphere of production and trade," i.e. labor plus distribution, is not the source of wealth, reason is. The "sphere of production and trade" is smuggled into the argument as if it were a spontaneous creation of God, as if this sphere required neither material plentitude nor human industry for its creation. This is the logical contradiction and the narcissism at the heart of all Randism.
: "What is Capitalism's stance towards exploitation? Capitalism is the only system that bans exploitation, for anyone or by anyone, since it regards each and every man as an end to himself, and not as a tool to be exploited by others."
I'll be sure to tell Nike's employees they're not being exploited.
Bill, Randists are a bunch of pathetic twerps who make sense of their lives in the absence of a decent family life and despite their being exploited by white male capitalist society, by subscribing to a cult of propertarian individualism. Their every argument is a mental blinker.
