{"id":7040,"date":"2017-01-19T06:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:56:22","slug":"488-for-the-love-of-money-freedom-the-unknown-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/7040","title":{"rendered":"488 – For the love of money \/ Freedom: The unknown ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY \u2013 FOR THE LOVE OF LIFE: “Tyranny of the rich?” That’s rich! But it’s a common belief among those who have a limited understanding (or outright dislike) of capitalism and what that word truly represents.<\/p>\n

“Capitalism is slavery,” is another epistemological contradiction that is often heard in the blind rage against the singular economic system that is the very opposite of slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or maybe you\u2019ve heard these before: \u201cCapitalists prey on the poor\u201d or \u201cThe love of money is the root of all evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are, of course, demonstrable falsehoods. Yet many accept these bromides as truths. To be able to counter these tragic misunderstandings (or to discover sinister <\/strong>intentions), one must be intellectually and morally armed against them.<\/p>\n

On today\u2019s Just Right, you\u2019ll hear our response to these and many more similar bromides that lead to tragic outcomes when practiced as truths.<\/p>\n

\u201cCapitalism,\u201d wrote Ayn Rand<\/strong> in her book of the same name, is \u201cthe unknown ideal.\u201d Her objective in writing \u201cCapitalism: the Unknown Ideal<\/strong>\u201d was not to \u201cpromote\u201d capitalism, but simply to define it. Having thus made clear what capitalism is and what capitalism is not, those who have had the courage to read her book will find themselves faced with a very clear moral choice, perhaps for the first time in their lives.<\/p>\n

Capitalism is a moral system<\/strong>, not just an economic one. Love it or hate it, this truth lies beneath most people’s feelings about capitalism. The attempt to destroy the very concept of capitalism is a conscious effort to avoid moral judgement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freedom and capitalism are the moral standards by which all political systems must be judged. They are the ideal conditions towards which free, productive, and secure societies must strive in order to remain free, productive, and secure.<\/p>\n

Sad to say, \u201cFreedom\u201d itself remains an \u201cunknown ideal\u201d<\/strong> and it too requires that distinctions be made between what freedom \u201cis\u201d and what freedom \u201cis not.\u201d As abstract concepts, both freedom and capitalism are not things visible to the naked eye or ear. They must be understood to be apprehended.<\/p>\n

Freedom, capitalism, and democracy are the three social and economic conditions that go hand in hand.<\/strong> No other combinations are viable or possible.<\/p>\n

For that reason, all three of these concepts are under severe attack by politicians of all major political parties. Why? Because they all share an \u201cideal\u201d that sets us on the road to tyranny via state supremacy and control. Statism is the defining \u201cideal\u201d of the left, and always leads to increasing poverty and misery.<\/p>\n

Life can improve vastly once capitalism is understood and practiced.<\/strong> Everyone should learn and know that freedom, capitalism, and democracy are Just Right, and never to be found on the left.<\/p>\n

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  FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY \u2013 FOR THE LOVE OF LIFE: “Tyranny of the rich?” That’s rich! But it’s a common belief among those who have a limited understanding (or outright dislike) of capitalism and what that word truly represents. “Capitalism is slavery,” is another epistemological contradiction that is often heard in the blind [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,69,111,596,28,604,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-capitalism-politics","category-economics","category-governance","category-ideas","category-latest","category-money-economics","category-politics","issues-capitalism","issues-freedom","issues-money","personalities-alex-epstein","category-12-id","category-25-id","category-69-id","category-111-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-604-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15324,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/15324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}