 The laws of capitalism , blind and invisible to the majority , act upon the individual without his thinking about it . He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him . That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists , who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller — whether or not it is true — about the possibilities of success . The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller , and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails , are left out of the picture , and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this . 
