Love it.
Rush keeping it pithy...
The whole point: Make what people want to buy and sell as much as you can - prices (unfettered) work themselves out. Or, educate yourself enough to be able to provide a service people want to pay for - then, WORK! You will get paid what you are worth.
How do all these congress-critters end up multi-millionaires??
Mexico is an oligarchy, effectively run by a relative handful of "insider" families.
In an oligarchy, corruption and the need to bribe officials is a necessary aspect for the stability of the oligarchy. The need to continually bribe officials operates as a tax on the "un-connected" who want to operate a business, and puts them at a competitive disadvantage to businesses owned by the "connected" (does anybody think that a Mexican official would dare to demand a bribe from the nephew of Mexico's president?)
It’s a great line, worth repeating, but Rush isn’t the first to state it. I’ve been saying it for years, and I heard it somewhere else. I just don’t remember where.
I'd extend this farther back in history.
The "normal" thing in human history was for wealth to flow from power, not power from wealth.
This is for the fairly obvious reason that those with power can always take away the wealth of those without power. For instance, in Chinese history whenever a non-ruler became wealthy he was eventually looted by Emperor or magistrates.
Only in the last few centuries in the West did systems with sufficiently robust rule by law permit massive accumulation of wealth without political power. Capitalism is a historical oddity, not the natural human condition.
I think many people are on a sub-conscious level more comfortable with wealth flowing from power than the reverse.