Comment by voidhorse

> As a summary of market economics, your breakdown is a grossly misguided caricature on the other hand. While there are exceptions and inefficiencies, most wealth in the market economies isn't created by hoarding anything after having taken it from others, it's instead created by cleverly using limited resources to deliver something to others who want to hand over their money inn exchange for the alternative value you provide, and also finding more capital-efficient ways of doing more of the same on a greater scale.

This seems like a nice empty abstraction to wield to shield yourself from serious and sober moral analysis. Every man owes society a debt through his training, education, knowledge, the public services he enjoys, and the good will of others. Yet, in spite of this, under capitalism many men feel justified to take more from others—on what grounds? In many cases, they also feel justified in outright extorting others, or socializing costs. Yet I'm sure you view all manner of these practices as "cleverly using limited resources"—I can't wait to use that as my excuse when I dump factory waste into the local reservoir.