The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
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