There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.