There is No Wealth Factory

Wealth is not a product or commodity. There is not some factory out there manufacturing wealth that will someday run out. Wealth is not a service that ends when the shop closes for the night. Wealth is simply a measure. Having more of it does not mean your neighbor has less. Having more of it does not mean you took it from someone else. It is instead a reflection of who we are; our talents, our choices, our opportunities, how hard we have applied ourselves, and, often overlooked, the economic system that underlies the nation in which we live. In other words, unless fraud or some other nefarious scheme is in place, obtaining wealth is not a zero-sum game.

~Your Getting Rich Costs Me Nothing by Thomas W. Washburne at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, MI