Real Wealth and False Wealth

Name: Real Wealth and False Wealth
Author: Xiaojinyuan

真财富与假财富

by Xiaojinyuan (晓锦源)

Status: Completed
Length: 392k Words
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Conventional wisdom misreads the source of wealth as natural resources and physical labor. We point instead to its true wellsprings: the ability to think and the power to create. Conventional wisdom reduces wealth to money and material goods. We reveal its real forms: ideas, systems, and technology. Conventional wisdom imagines wealth can be managed through planning and control. We argue that only free markets and property rights can provide its institutional foundation. Conventional wisdom tells individuals to work hard and live frugally. We believe the key is to make use of one's unique talents and think independently.

This shift in understanding means far more than economics. It is a sweeping challenge to a deeply rooted "conventional wisdom" that worships material quantity while dismissing the quality of ideas. The fantasy that wealth can be "distributed" and "created" through administrative orders or moral fervor is exposed here for its anti-intellectual core. This offers the strongest defense of the market economy and individual freedom: the free market is not a jungle where the strong prey on the weak, but the most efficient network for people with different talents to discover one another, exchange value, and work together to create. Constitutional government and the rule of law are no empty formalities, either. They are essential shields for protecting the fragile spark of thought, so easily trampled by power, and the material fruits it produces.

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