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Re:Biases Against the Creation of Wealth by thomasp on Friday September 28, 2007 @05:24PM (#60823)
I am a libertarian capitalist, who has made a reasonable amount of wealth. This article is good, but it ignores several institutional sources of "unfairness" in common parlance. The most obvious ones through history were slavery, government-sanctioned racism, widespread sexism and so on.

Leaving those things aside, today active government policy promotes borrowing vs saving (through Federal Reserve credit policy), and actively bails out Wall Street speculators - who made a mint during credit bubbles.

Common people aren't stupid if they feel at times "the system is stacked against me". It often is stacked against them. I am no socialist, but libertarians recognize that the fastest way to push people into socialism is to institutionalize unfairness this way.

Re:Biases Against the Creation of Wealth by fauigerzigerk on Saturday September 29, 2007 @04:35AM (#61014)
Unfortunately capitalism doesn't help much in establishing what is fair and what is not.
Re:Biases Against the Creation of Wealth by eru on Saturday January 12, 2008 @05:17AM (#97510)
Depends on your definition of capitalism.