On my desk calendar i have a quote from Margaret Thatcher “If your only oppurtunity is to be equal, then it is not equality”.

In order for any entrepreneur to succedd there first must be oppurtunity, freedon of oppurtunity is freedom to succeed or to fail, it is the right to have financial and economic freedom. If oppurtunity is not there or is controlled all of us suffer. Any type of intervention agaist freedom is an intervention against oppurtunity. I do not advocate untramelled freedom where everybody gets to do what they want when they want but i do advocate freedom where everyone gets to do what they want or desire so long as what they want or desire is not to the detriment of someone else. It is this that i beleive is at the heart of the statement “all men have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ the pursuit of happiness is the right to have before you the oppurtunity to make your own decisions regarding the direction that you want your life to take, as long as your pursuit of happiness does not interfere with someone else’s pursuit of happiness that is fine.

the right to oppurtunity is a fundamental human right and that includes the oppurtunity to have more than someone else, to earn more, to be in some senses “more equal” rather than equal. This is what Margaret Thatcher is saying, pursue more and get more, if all you can be is the same as everyone else whay would you strive to be better, to have better education, better work or to be an entrepreneur and rise above the herd. The human condition is to continually strive for something better, that is how civilisation develops.

Regards

Michael