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No, that's like saying cheating people or killing them is the capitalist thing to do. Defending capitalism becomes indistinguishable from attacking it; either way, the assertion is false. A market economy is a way of optimizing welfare through profit-seeking, but it has no meaning or existence or justification without constraints and boundary conditions. What constraints we should have is a political question completely separate from whether we should have private ownership of capital and free markets.


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