The proletariat own property in their labor, which is what they sell to their proprietarian
 employers.





It is not enough to own your own labor capacity, if land and capital are private property,
and if you are excluded from land and capital, and thus excluded from the means of
production, from the means of livelihood.

Although in common usage we use the expression "free market", the market is not free.
The market is an ensemble where contracts enslave and deceit ensnares.




The successful and the wealthy are not successful and wealthy because they were
able and willing to forego gratification until they became successful and wealthy. All
of us who are not successful enough, and wealthy enough, have to forego gratification
to some degree, and that sacrifice does not mean we will all become successful and
wealthy. Foregoing gratification is how we manage to just get by from day to day; going
without is not how most of us become successful and well-to-do.

Foregoing gratification -- as the respectable and righteous way that the wealthy class
got to be wealthy -- is but a quaint little myth.





Does borrowing capital and starting a business require foregoing a lot more gratification
than a low-income wage-worker has to forego? If one borrows capital, that is not really an
act of foregoing gratification, rather it's really just an act of borrowing capital.






Are young couples or single parents with children foregoing gratification and getting
wealthy and becoming successful?





"Every man of riches is either a rogue or a rogue's heir."
-- Louis Bourdaloue, 1703




Without freedom there can be no history.




Those who do not go to college get some very good wages, and some few of them
 even turn out to be quite successful and wealthy.






"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in
it at all."
-- Avram Noam Chomsky





"There are only two kinds of money in the world: your money and my money."
-- Milton Friedman





"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry