The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
Joseph A. SchumpeterSituations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.
Joseph A. SchumpeterThings economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.
Joseph A. Schumpeter