{"id":5722,"date":"2021-08-02T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:46:12","slug":"people-love-to-criticize-capitalism-heres-why-theyre-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"People Love To Criticize Capitalism. Here&#8217;s Why They&#8217;re Wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Free markets&nbsp;<em>increase<\/em>&nbsp;total wealth. Competition encourages entrepreneurs to find new ways to release more value from both people and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because capitalism is voluntary and consumers have choices, the only way capitalists can get rich is to offer us something that we believe is better than we had before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That creates&nbsp;<em>new<\/em>&nbsp;wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Jobs became a billionaire. But by creating Apple, he gave us more: millions of jobs and billions of dollars added to our economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w10433\/w10433.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research<\/a>&nbsp;shows that entrepreneurs only keep 2.2 percent of the additional wealth they generate. &#8220;In other words, the rest of us captured almost 98 percent of the benefits,&#8221; says economist Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I hope that we get 100 new super billionaires,&#8221; he adds, &#8220;Because that means 100 new people have figured out ways to make the rest of our lives better off.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GU3oLoH6Xr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/06\/16\/people-love-to-criticize-capitalism-heres-why-theyre-wrong\/\">People Love To Criticize Capitalism. 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Competition encourages entrepreneurs to find new ways to release more value from both people and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Because capitalism is voluntary and consumers have choices, the only way capitalists can get rich is to offer us something that we believe is better than we had before.<\/p>\n<p>That creates new wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs became a billionaire. But by creating Apple, he gave us more: millions of jobs and billions of dollars added to our economy.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that entrepreneurs only keep 2.2 percent of the additional wealth they generate. &#8220;In other words, the rest of us captured almost 98 percent of the benefits,&#8221; says economist Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that we get 100 new super billionaires,&#8221; he adds, &#8220;Because that means 100 new people have figured out ways to make the rest of our lives better off.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[329,217,165],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-capitalism","tag-economics","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}