Big-government advocates harbor enormous disdain for the entrepreneur because he has an annoying habit of creating products that people want rather than those that the statists believe they should want.

Why would anyone want to stop human progress? In most cases, it’s not a matter of evil intent. Rather, it’s more a combination of naiveté, ignorance, and arrogance. Unfortunately, this naiveté, ignorance, and arrogance have been moving the United States away from liberty and toward servitude for more than a hundred years.

This, in turn, has stifled the entrepreneur and prevented him from creating untold products and services that could enhance mankind’s existence. As Ayn Rand said more than fifty years ago, “The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others.”