[erikpukinskis]

Even if the effect you describe is real (and I believe it is) the status quo is still easier under capitalism.

When you are poor your incentive is to find employees who are undervalued and hire them to release the potential energy in their skills. Development of those employees takes time, but you're poor. Time is all you have.

Once you have a successful business though, you have plenty of money and time is what is scarce for you. If a competitor develops your employee to extract additional value that's bad for you. If they poach your staff you have to take additional time to develop a new hire to do something the original employee was already doing.

So mature businesses shift their resources to building a moat that makes it hard for competitors to do that. This is so ingrained in how we think businesses have to work that mostly we don't even notice it. But almost all jobs contain quite a lot of "moat maintenance" tasks.

This is all, of course, depended on capitalism which says the management of resources should be done by those people who have capital. If resources were managed collectively, the moats wouldn't last because other people would bridge them. It's only under property law (or martial law) that a moat can even exist in the first place.