Is oppurtunity Monopolized?

No one is kept poor because other people have monopolized
the wealth and have put a fence around it. You may
be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but
there are other channels open to you.
At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different
directions, according to the needs of the whole and the particular
stage of social evolution which has been reached. There is
abundance of opportunity for the person who will go with the
tide, instead of trying to swim against it.
So workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived
of opportunity. The workers are not being .kept down. by their
masters; they are not being .ground. by the trusts and big business.
As a class, they are where they are because they do not do
things in a certain way.
The working class may become the master class whenever they
will begin to do things in a certain way. The law of wealth is the
same for them as it is for all others. This they must learn, and
they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as
they do. The individual worker, however, is not held down by
an entire class’s ignorance of these laws; he can follow the tide
of opportunity to riches and this book will tell him how.
No one is kept in poverty by shortness in the supply of riches;
there is more than enough for all. A palace as large as the capitol
at Washington might be built for every family on earth from the
building material in the United States alone, and under intensive
cultivation this country would produce wool, cotton, linen,
and silk enough to clothe each person in the world finer than
Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together with food enough
to feed them all luxuriously.
The visible supply is practically inexhaustible, and the invisible
supply really is inexhaustible. Everything you see on earth is
made from one original substance, out of which all things proceed.
New forms are constantly being made and older ones are dissolving,
but all are shapes assumed by one thing.