The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All wealth is the product of labor.
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.