[oldbrowser]

Of primary concern was the need for some amelioration for “The misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class.”[

That's the beauty of the free enterprise system. It's voluntary.
We are all the owners of our own one person enterprise and we market our knowledge and skills to the best of our ability.
Some people are more successful than others.
Them that could, did. Them that couldn't, didn't.

Of course we are charitable to the old, young and handicapped.

[ClearCase_guy]

Economic activity should be voluntary.
Charity should be voluntary.

Sometimes society has suffering, and no one steps up and voluntarily does anything. I have no easy answer to that conundrum. Force is bad. Suffering is bad. We live in a broken world and things don’t always follow along the lines we might like.