Two Paradoxes of Capitalism, Resolved

By Ari Armstrong

Recently Robert Fulford wrote an op-ed for Canada’s National Post titled “The Capitalist Paradox.” A description of a book Fulford discusses, Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism (by Peter Foster), suggests not one but two paradoxes:

How can we at once live in a world of expanding technological wonders and unprecedented well-…