Universal Opulence Is Our Aim
Bill Collier- As the President of The Capitalist League and coauthor of The Capitalist Manifesto, the definitive guide to the true meaning of capitalism, I am an advocate for human dignity and universal opulence which capitalism alone can provide for in the economic realm.
Capitalism advances human dignity and prosperity through the power of economic self-determination. Freedom of association and exchange, ownership and property rights, as well as profit earning and wealth preservation drive equitable prosperity for all. These are the only means to achieve universal opulence that leaves nobody behind!
Examples of exploitation and abuse, cronyism, and official manipulation and interference are not an indictment of capitalism. Those who practice such things do so AGAINST the principles and values of capitalism, whose truest aim is universal opulence.
The libel against this noble, equitable, and just economic ideology and the manipulation and violation of the free market as a moral necessity have confused many as to the true nature, principles, and goals of capitalism. Capitalism alone is the champion of prosperity and economic justice for every single person, especially the poor.
Capitalism is the heart of economic justice and the only path to economic prosperity that is felt universally and that repsects human dignity. All the fake forms of capitalism, basically cronyism, and the tendency to use this to libel capitalism and excuse the evils of a planned economy, are forms of economic injustice against the average person.
Economic justice is when all persons have an equitable pathway to prosperity through economic freedom and stewardship of their own means and abilities bent to serve their needs. Capitalism has abundance which allows for private and public means to ensure that nobody is left behind while few need benevolence or a social safety net to survive and yet all who need these things can access them.
In a capitalist economy, that which is essential is affordable and prosperity with abundance is shared by almost all while none of the poor are left behind.
This is how we know capitalism isn’t being used according to its principles and practices: essential goods and services are not affordable to all and prosperity is not shared by almost everyone, so that very few are what we would call poor.
When the engine of universal prosperity, which is capitalism and only capitalism, is interfered with through cronyism or centralized economic planning, then we can say economic injustice has occured. When people cannot begin an entrepreneurial effort without artificial limits, when profit is not gained and owned on the basis of one’s investment and contribution, and when the cost of goods and services is manipulated through market interference by government or any entity, then we have injustice.
Capitalism, when properly understood in its spirit and intent and according to its laws and standards, is the only true path for economic justice for all human beings. The stereotypes and misrepresentation of capitalism by both its ideological foes and those who claim its mantle while violating its ethics are delusions meant to keep you from seeing what is possible for your own economic liberation.
Follow The Capitalist Manifesto and be part of a global economic awakening to promote universal opulence!
