Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
Forgive me, everyone, please. I was under the misapprehension that the ability to make vast fortunes if you were skillful, or lucky, or able to use your own situation to your advantage, was what the free-enterprise culture was all about.

I withdraw my previous comment.
It's about entrepreneurship and succeeding or failing on one's own merits. Middle-management and CEOs who've never built a company of their own are unfortunate by-products.