[dbpatterson]

So where did their wealth come from? Most likely, they made it through 'business' - which usually means, through benefiting from the work of other, significantly less paid workers. The fact that our economic and political system permits this (and to the extent that it does) is not some natural phenomenon.

[dandare]

Workers are paid significantly less because that is the value of their work on the free market. Anyway, the important thing is whether they have equal opportunity to leave their shitty jobs and start business themselves and earn more through their genius (or loose their savings in free competition on the market).

Our economic and political system (mixed market capitalism) may not be natural phenomenon (what is?) but majority of voters prefer it to other systems.

[RodericDay]

> majority of voters prefer it to other systems

The whole point of the article is that if "the majority of voters" were informed, they'd vote differently.