The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
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Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.
Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but that's not true. Money is simply a medium of exchange. Prosperity in a human society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems that we create for ourselves.
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.