Who’s right here?

Who is on top of things – Abraham Lincoln, who said that labor is the source of all wealth, or the Randians and modern-day “conservatives,” who say that wealth is the source of all labor?

3 thoughts on “Who’s right here?”

  1. Tough choice, somewhat like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. The first was a politician, the other a raving sociopath. I posted my thoughts on Ayn Rand on my blogspot: Lindsayphoenix.blogspot.com What we in this sad old world need is a little more compassion for our fellow men. Greed is a sickness that can never be cured.

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  3. I don’t know what that is about, Swede – Lincoln was pre-capitalist as we know it now. Here’s his famous quotation that I am referring to:

    “They hold that labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed; that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence they hold that labor is the superior – greatly the superior – of capital. They do not deny that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital.”

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