Hooray for the Robber Barons

I like this letter-to-editor that was published in the Wall Street Journal today. A George Cull from Peninsula, Ohio wrote:

Regarding Daniel Henninger’s “Bring Back the Robber Barons” (Wonder Land, March 4) and the benefits bestowed upon us by the rich: For 30 years I posed this question to my eighth graders: In a free enterprise system with incentives and competition, who would be the richest person? The answer: the one who makes the most product for the most people for the least cost. And what’s wrong with that? Why, nothing. Eighth graders understood the concept.

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1. Wall Street Journal, Letters to the Editor, p. A20.