The standard of living of common men is highest in countries with the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. It is the foremost material interest of everybody that control of factors of production be concentrated in the hands of those who utilize them most efficiently.
-Mises
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread...the hand it the diligent will rule, but the slack hand will be put to forced labor
-proverbs 12:1,24
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is satisfied. Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it.
-proverbs 13:4,11
Problems with "big business" stem from a seeding of unjust law that protects and justifies theft...most often at the expense of the poor or widowed.
These are not externalities of free enterprise and private property but rather unjust wielding of the sword of the state.
