If the good, the virtuous, the morally ideal is suffering and
self-sacrifice—then, by that standard, capitalism had to be damned as evil.
Capitalism does not tell men to suffer, but to pursue enjoyment and
achievement, here, on earth—capitalism does not tell men to serve and
sacrifice, but to produce and profit—capitalism does not preach passivity,
humility, resignation, but independence, self-confidence, self-reliance—and,
above all, capitalism does not permit anyone to expect or demand, to give or to
take the unearned. In all human relationships—private or public, spiritual
or material, social or political or economic or moral—capitalism requires that
men be guided by a principle which is the antithesis of altruism: the principle
of justice.