We always "taught" that if someone is rich is because it exploits the poor. If you own a factory, they exploit the workers, if you own a store, you are exploiting the customers. Recently
give a lecture at a private university. At the end I asked a student could do to improve the country. The student wore a shirt with a picture of Che Guevara on the back. I realized that was a restless young man of good intentions, but had been contaminated with the leftist education is taught in regular public schools (and even private) of Mexico. So, challenging tone told point blank, "You make yourself obscenely millionaire, with that help at all! "His face turned red, if not shame or because they felt offended.
I knew that my answer crashed into the entire system of Marxist beliefs taught by his teachers since he started primary school. I knew it very well because myself by teaching me all these common myths clouding any mind green.
Provided we "taught" that if someone is rich because it exploits the poor. If you own a factory, they exploit the workers, if you own a store, they exploit the customers. The more you become a millionaire, then you are more exploitative, enemy of society and deserve only the people you hang in the middle of the public square. These ideas of Marxist flavor, are taught in all primary, secondary, preparatory and Mexican universities. Soon they have imported more than two centuries ago Adam Smith decipher the mystery of voluntary exchange (trade) showing that it is the best mechanism for achieving the prosperity of society.
So I had to explain patiently to the young:
I only know two ways to get rich: stealing or selling. The first means an involuntary exchange: You leave with a dagger in his hand to wait on the corner of his victim, threatening him that if the portfolio does not give you a short neck. Or is deputy to give bribes to the treasury, but taxpayers can stop him is the white-collar theft. Both are trading involuntary labor. But these roads do not recommend it, however attractive they might seem.
The second way to get rich is through trade. That means you must produce and offer something that others like it, so who are willing to pay the price. Can you make lemon water, chambritas, cars or whatever comes to mind. But if you do not develop something that is the taste of the customer, then not sell anything and remain worse than before. But if you can make chambritas that appeal to the customer, then you will sell a lot and with that comes the profits.
Note that you are getting rich because its product is able to meet the tastes, needs or whims of customers. Nobody puts a gun to your head to buy it, they do so voluntarily, just because they like their chambritas.
In other words, you're getting healthy profit, lawful, legitimate (in a market economy). In this case, nobody should be given the right to condemn you for the fact a lot of money. True, people of communist ideas you want to burn alive, but out of envy or because they do not understand the logic of wealth. They do not realize that a lot of money, is making people happy who buy their chambritas, workers who make chambritas, to that pack, which carry, which makes the yarn, which removed the oil, which makes the thread, etc.. It is very difficult to see the whole chain of people who benefit from the fact that someone is a successful manufacturer of chambritas. If this man, for fear of being frowned upon, not taken the decision to do business, not those chains would have made profits. Unwittingly becomes a benefactor of the community.
But the Communists are determined to crush "because it is rotting in money." Do not understand how money moves. If as a poor man ate a chicken a day, now that make much money are you going to eat one hundred chickens daily? But even if you eat them, industry Chicken is happy to be selling more than one hundred chickens a day, then there would create another chain of beneficiaries.
Finally, I told the student. Suppose you are the manufacturer of chambritas and winning a million dollars a day. What would do with that money? Perhaps you would be done about books of tickets to eat? Tell me would you!
He replied: Well, it would extend my factory, put up branches in other countries, I would be a palace, I'd buy luxury cars or would keep it in the bank.
Okay, I said, they see that everything that involves me creating chains of benefits for thousands of people. Even if you save your money in the bank, you should know that money is going to be available to others who have the initiative to found other companies and that's good for everybody.
The young man looked at me with sad eyes and told me to leave: "I think I have deceived all my life, my teachers always told me to study to get a job. Thank you, thank you very much for taking away the idea that making money was a sin. From today I will try to make me obscenely Millionaire. " Obviously I was extremely happy for this event, with the hope of winning a youth to the capitalist world.
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Author: Santos Mercado
