"individuals access to a fair share of the production of goods"
Sure it does. Your fair share... is how much you agree to work for.
If someone hires you to do a job for $30,000, and you agree to it... that's your fair share.
If someone hires you to do a job for $100,000, and you agree to it.... that's your fair share.
If they hire you for $200,000, or $500K, or $1.8 Million...
Whatever someone is willing to pay you, and you agree to it, that *IS* "your fair share."
The only people who believe capitalism distributes wealth fairly are slaves, imbeciles, or those who "own" the means of production; workers are "free" to choose an employer who will exploit their surplus labor or starve.
Capitalist Freedom Is a Farce
"Capitalism’s defenders insist that, as Friedman and his wife Rose wrote in their book
Free To Choose, 'When you enter a store, no one forces you to buy. You are free to do so or go elsewhere. . . . You are free to choose.'
"They applied the same argument to workers: if you don’t like your job or career, find another one.
"But other figures have seen the market’s alleged negative freedom quite differently. Consider Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and self-taught intellectual. He concluded:
"Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other. . . . The man who has it in his power to say to a man, you must work the land for me for such wages as I choose to give, has a power of slavery over him as real, if not as complete, as he who compels toil under the lash. All that a man hath he will give for his life.'"
Again, capitalism does not "distribute" anything.
There is no magical "free market fairy" that goes around distributing wealth.
Wealth is not distributed in capitalism.
Wealth is created and destroyed, and those who produce more, have more. Those who invest and save more, have more.
There is no fairy that come around and distributes tomatoes. If I dig a whole, put in tomato seeds, put some soil in it, fertilize it, water it.....
I will end up with tomatoes. Capitalism didn't "distribute" that wealth to me. My actions at producing, resulted in a production.
I have a friend, who built a rather expensive distillery, and makes wine. He bottles it and sells it.
There was no capitalism fairy that came and 'distributed' wealth to him. He made a pretty good tasting low-alcohol wine from (if I remember right) strawberries, and people liked it, and they buy bottles of the stuff off him.
That's how life works. You produce something of value for your fellow human beings, and the result is you become wealthy. I should also mention, provided you don't blow the money, and spend it all on crap.
Anyone can do this.
A one-time janitor and gas station attendant demonstrated that you can become a multimillionaire with a modest salary.
www.cnbc.com
Still no magical fairy that 'distribute' wealth to a janitor. He saved, and invested his earnings his whole life, and now he has $8 Million dollars in his retirement.
No fairy 'distributed' it to him.
By the way, I'm the same way. Other than last year, where I earned a whooping $30,000+.... the prior 10 years, I have averaged about $22,000 a year, or less.
Yet, I have tens of thousands in wealth. I own stocks, and I own property.
How did that happen? I lived on less than I made each year, and purchased stocks and paid off debt. I own my house free and clear, and I have thousands in the bank, and have tens of thousands in stock.
It wasn't magic. It was a choice. I bought investments. I didn't borrow money. I have no credit cards, no debts, no car loan, no student loan.
No one came by and said "Maybe it's 'fair' to distribute wealth to you!".
No it was a choice. Just like how you posted that pie chart of Swedes owning more of the wealth, is because 76% of Swedes make a choice to buy more investments.
It's not because the free-market Capitalist fairies in Sweden are more fair, and the free-market capitalist fairies of the US, are less fair.
It's because Swedes choose to live on less than they make, and plow their savings into buying stocks and bonds in the capitalist investment market.
I told you before when you are whining about the rich having most of the wealth.... if ever single person in this country who worked a full 40-hours a week, were to simply take $100..... just $100... most people spend more on their phone bill a month, let alone drinking and cable TV and a host of other nonsense.....
If every 40-hour a week worker, invested just $100 a month into a good growth stock mutual fund, that entire pie chart would change in 1 years, and by 10 years, it would look more like Swedens.
