E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I am a capitalist. Well really, visionist, a person who believes that people with a vision (rather than capital) should control the world. However, a well functioning, transparent capitalism is a fairly close approximation, since people with the vision usually can align the resources behind it. Some of the wealthiest men today did not start with a capital, but with a vision and that’s the kind of capitalistic society that I want to live in.

So, why do I love Progressives, with their nontransparent government programs, that exaggerate the problems by trying to fix the symptoms using approaches that ignore human motivations and frailties, rather than create an environment where market forces can address the problems from within? Why do I love their, what I consider,  misguided efforts to change the world? I love them because the demonstrate the greatness of our nation, a country where people can express views and even work to enact policies that are clearly counterproductive for all parties involved, and then go on to misinterpret the results as a need for more of similar types of programs. I love them because their paranoia keeps capitalists more honest than they would be otherwise. I love them because in debating with them, my ideas get crystallized and are sharpened. They are the best vaccine against totalitarian communism precisely because we get enough of them to build up an immunity and to keep fighting off the disease.

So, I celebrate the diversity of views among my friends and colleagues, while focusing on doing all in my power to be productive, rather than getting caught in useless and self destructing hate and frustration that seems all too prevalent regardless of the ideology behind it.

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