Not because they're businessmen, but because they're honest, fearless, creative, courageous, and without them our society would not work at all. They take terrible risks and work very hard, they do something I could never do. I recognize I really don't have what it takes myself to do what they do.

Pure Communism can't deliver in that department. It fails to take advantage of every man's desire to take terrible risks and work unimaginably hard in order to make something of himself. It also lacks the self-regulation of competition and a free market.

But capitalism BY ITSELF cannot guarantee that.
It allows scoundrels and criminals to get access to the machinery that provides us with every single thing we need. And the market doesn't always work. Crooks are very good at finding ways to beat the system. And even the most reputable and conscientious capitalists simply have a different agenda than the society as a whole, and honest differences of opinion and conflicts of interest are bound to happen.

I'm sending you something in the mail. Its an magazine interview I conducted with a businessman I respect and admire a great deal.