Capitalism is liberating and moral.
Hostile interests create marketplaces. They are the reasons free people comprehend such rights as freedom of association. Diversity is the basis of free enterprise. If everyone in a community had similar interests, the community would be homogeneous. It would be a collective of the most liberal sort, its entire innovative capacity amounting to the innovative capacity of a single person. Individual pursuits generate the capital necessary for a diverse and prosperous society.
The accumulation of wealth is not a zero-sum equivalency. Affluence can be attributed to native intelligence, strength and resolve, industry, frugality, sobriety, and other endowments of nature – “simple moral virtues that any man could cultivate,” virtues that enriched business leaders because they enriched the buying public, who, in turn, enjoyed more options in the marketplace. At all levels of trade – from mining and farming to wholesale and retail to bartering with neighbors – the pursuit of competing, pecuniary interests stimulate an economy and enrich a society.
Trump has not shown himself the most moral individual, so, who knows . . .
Wyllie, “Social Darwinism and the Businessman,” 634.