Capitalism might be sophisticated, but it sure is simple.

It’s economic freedom. No government and no guild will stop you from offering wares or services on your terms, so long as you aren’t breaking any laws.

Freedom is great – it means you can try a range of solutions and live life on your terms.

Even so, I hear plenty of ingrates complaining about it.

“Why should I have to work just to make someone else rich?”

That’s a grim and narrow take on it. Working for an employer is supposed to be mutually beneficial. Being an employee is safe and stable – at least compared to owning a business. Also, most of the value you generate goes into keeping the business’s lights on – if it went into your boss’s pockets, anyone could outcompete them.

But even ignoring all that, you don’t have to do anything.

Under capitalism, you can choose to work for one of hundreds of large companies. Or one of thousands of small companies. Or you can start your own company. You can go freelance. You can invest or trade intelligently.

The point of freedom is having options. If you don’t like the way you have to make a living, then figure out how to change that.

“That’s a bunch of clever words. That doesn’t change the fact that I, as an employee, slave away and can’t afford rent. Meanwhile, the CEO makes literally hundreds of times my salary!”

I’ll say it again, shall I?

Economic freedom.

If you want, you can start a competing company – one that pays its employees better. Do that and you’ll attract the best employees and have excellent retention, allowing you to deliver a superior service.

Huh. Is that outcome better for you and the employees and your customers? Is that a win-win-win outcome?

Yes.

Which is how free markets trounce centrally controlled ones.

Of course, starting your own business requires drive, planning, intelligence and an appetite for risk. That’s the real advantage the economic slavery of centralised economies offers: you can never get head no matter what, so there’s no shame in not trying.

“Oh, great, another loser simping for billionaires.”

Neither politicians nor billionaires care about you. The difference being that billionaires have to offer you value to advance their selfish, greedy ambitions. Politicians get elected by making big promises and then not delivering. But if Amazon stops delivering on its promises to its customers, Bezos is out on the streets.

I back the system that ties their ambitions to their ability to provide. Once in office, politicians don’t have to serve or provide for anyone. They can phone it in and half-ass it for years before the votes swing against them.

Relying on the altruism of leaders, hoping against evidence they’ll work hard and do what’s right?

Now, that’s simping.

Of course, capitalism’s biggest rat in the stew is economic freedom. Freedom means you’re responsible for yourself. You can serve the market how you want, but you’ll have to figure out what that looks like.

It’s much easier for Daddy Government to coddle you.

You can just relax and do what you’re told.

I’m sure that sounds nice to some of you.

If not?

If surrendering your sovereignty to corrupt – or at least out of touch – officials sounds like a historical reversion to worse times?

Well, freedom is like a muscle. You need to exercise it to keep it.

But what’s holding you back here? What’s stopping you from providing a valued service to your community, on your own terms and getting rewarded for it?

Fear?

Uncertainty?

Procrastination?

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