Profiting off capitalism by being against it

I love this quote so much I want it to have my children. Why Capitalism is Good for the Soul:

… capitalism has brought into being an educated class that has no responsibility for practical affairs, and that this class can only make a mark by criticising the system that feeds them. Intellectuals attack capitalism because that is how they sell books and build careers.

I am, to some extent a libertarian and anarcho-capitalist. I believe really strongly that what we describe as socialists these days are people who want all the comfort and convenience of the modern world without having to take any responsibility for maintaining or enhancing it.

• 15 Jan 2008

• Thinking