I will grant all of you that the profit margins of some companies like GE and Microsoft are very unnecessarily high. But many of you talk so often of abusive businesses raping the working class with unfair wages. I don't mean to bring anyone into the spotlight, but this is the last example I read: "Capitalist economy is a gigantic pump sucking up the labor and sweat of many in the pockets of the few." This is only true in some cases. Mostly, competition of workers allows them to get pretty fair wages. The employer will pay a worker as little as they can get away with, but they will raise the wage as much as necessary up until the point where it's not profitable anymore. Generally, because of competition the wage is not quite but near the maximum profitability point.

As far as these giant machines that suck the life out of everyone else, who among you personally knows people trying to run businesses? My dad has started two businesses, one of which failed (he had to liquidate it) and the other became successful. My mom is running a business that is constantly in the red. Running businesses COSTS MONEY. It is very difficult. A lot of the time (though not all), employers can't afford to pay more than they are for their laborers.

If nothing else, at least indicate that you can see the distinction between all capitalist employers and just the exorbitantly profitable ones.

All the folks whining about inequitable wages/accumulated wealth are simply admitting publicly that, in a system where everyone has the same chance to become wealthy based on self discipline and motivation, they just don't have the individual ability to do anything but fail.

And play victim -- as if Nature unfairly conspires against them and their otherwise superlative potentials.

For the want of a capital "S"...

I know a lot of people who run their own business and a lot of people who work for someone else, that is where I see the distinction.

I know a lot of people who run their own business and a lot of people who work for someone else, that is where I see the distinction.
Either way, employee or businessman, in a free market you're worth what you're paid.

Even in a free market there are those who know that extortion is their only hope of survival: Parasites.

Big hunks of male pulchritude all.

Not.

I know people that run their own business. I know how tough it can be for them, especially in the beginning.