People have a light switch brain with this topic. Markets and capitalism work and always have worked. It goes sideways when banks and monopolies start fucking things up especially on a global level, which is a downstream effect that can occur in any system. Yes, what you did was technically capitalism, and that works. Exploiting people and plundering the land is greed. Greed happens in EVERY system, including communism.
I dont really think there is a "line". I think a true market place corrects itself along with a culture in society when things go off the rails. The problem is now we have the invisible hand of media/government/big banks etc that make sure they can keep theirs and see to it that us rubes dont "correct" anything. The game is rigged in a way, but the solution is not to toss the whole system out and replace it with socialism or feudalism where we are peasants who own nothing. Our system works. Is it perfect, no.
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