Your RL alignment?

[hamishspence]

Right, and have people who hold this theory studied history or the current economic climate?

I got that impression. Admittedly it tends to be individualist-types like Heinlein and Rand - still, the basic idea is that wealth can be made - it doesn't have to be looted.

A factory worker has a much better standard of living than a medieval blacksmith, was one example given. And that factories cannot exist without "winners" - industrialists. With it being because of them, that the workers have their elevated standard of living - and don't have to work with metal at an "individual scale" - a much less productive one.