Because if you want profit then the benefits for others are an unintended consequence, and collectivists do not understand unintended consequences. Only intentions matter. If you wish to benefit yourself then it is impossible for that action to benefit others because intention equals result.
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I guess the question I should be asking is: Is a Natural Order possible so long as we look at mankind in a constrained vision?
Or possible this question: Isn’t a Natural Order only possible of a selfless and generous mankind?
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No, the opposite is the case. If mankind was selfless and generous then the incentives to create a natural order could not function. If people weren’t greedy we would all starve.
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A friend of mine asked me why capitalists shouldn’t have to share their profits with their laborers. I told him because it is the capitalist that fronts all the capital and takes all the risk. The laborer gets paid up front, even when no profits have yet, if ever, been made. He didn’t follow. So I asked him a simple question: Should laborers reimburse capitalists when they take losses?
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Capitalists shouldn’t share profits with workers because both workers and capitalists are paid according to supply and demand. Saying that workers in any way ‘share’ the profits of an enterprise shows complete misunderstanding of modern economic theory.