As we have seen, altruists tend to ascribe success and failure to luck or fate and therefore refer to the impoverished as "less fortunate" (p. 3.8:2). Here, in contrast, we use the latter expression in a precise, reality-oriented sense. Those who are forced into unemployment by minimum-wage laws and other regulations are indeed less fortunate, inasmuch as their plight stems from the initiation of force by others and is therefore beyond their control.