Some occupy strategic positions which give them advance information of forces that affect the market; and by training and an innate turn that way they have acquired a special technique which enables them to use the vast impersonal tide to turn their own wheels.
Dewey describes how some individuals leverage their knowledge and position to influence market forces.
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In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.
They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.