Labor alone -- both mental labor and manual labor -- creates useful/usable wealth. 
There is mental labor, and there is manual labor; there is intellectual labor, and there
is physical labor.  Behind most modern-day inventions, there are scientists who have
theorized and discovered some property of physical reality, which quality or attribute
can be turned into a physical aid to human labor.  The mental labors of scientists
serve to ascertain some fundamental natural power immanent in physical reality.
The mental labors of of inventors serve to design new and better ways to more
efficiently utilize the the fundamental natural powers as an aid to human labor.
The manual labors of industrial workers are needed to construct the factories and
the machines that produce new inventions.  And then, industrial workers make use
of the new inventions in order to make their own productive efforts simpler, and to
make their own productive powers more efficient. 





Labor alone creates wealth, because the category "labor" embraces both thought
and action, both intellectual labor and physical labor.

Labor alone creates wealth.  "Labor" subsumes both thinking labor and physical labor.





We often hear it said that, "What's good for business is good for the nation". This
can  be translated as saying that, what is freedom for business is also freedom for
the people. The ideological capitalist believes that more freedom for business is
identical with, and equivalent to, more freedom for people. The ideological capitalist
believes that those who deny freedom to business are denying freedom to people.
Their view of government is that the best government is a government of business,
by business, for business.





Poverty is relative. The more unemployment there is, there more poverty there is.





Where there is unemployment, that is where there is poverty.

People emigrate from poor countries, to escape both unemployment and poverty.
And they immigrate into rich countries, to find both well-paid employment and some
reasonable measure of affluence.





The right of those who labor to directly own and possess the product of their labor
is a right that is denied by really-existing capitalism.

The need of those who are propertyless to get and to keep a means of livelihood --
i.e., a wage job -- is ignored and disregarded by those who own the material means
of production. The laws that protect private property in the material means of
production are enforced by the organized and armed forces of the modern political
state. People are prevented from freedom of access to productive work by the
modern system of exclusive property in the means of production. Exclusive rights of
property in the means of production are exclusive property rights precisely because
such property excludes the propertyless from free access to such property. Those
who privately own the means of industrial production own more than they need to
supply their material needs, while those who do not privately own the means of
production are deprived of what they need to supply their real and urgent needs.

Private property in the means of production negatively impacts the life of those who
are deprived of access to the means of production.  The poor are excluded from the
means of production which are private property.

Personal property in the means of existence does not impact the life of other people
in a negative way, because no one is excluded from personal property. Personal
property is not exclusive property. Personal property does not deprive others from
owning personal property.





"Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side."
-- T. B. Reed