• • Capitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It 
Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, Forbes - The Objectivist Capitalism  |Objectivist author  | As Ayn Rand observed, “Capitalism did not create poverty—it inherited it.” For much of human history, the vast majority of the population was mired in poverty. All too often, the average individual lived in unimaginably wretched conditions. It was only in the nineteenth century, and then only in the West, that the masses started to enjoy prosperity.   Published: 2013-02-25