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> By definition trade in capitalism is done willing.

The definition of capitalism, and the world in which capitalism operates, are different.

The final transaction between buyer and seller is voluntary.

But all of the backend infrastructure may be highly manipulated in unethical, forceful ways.

A person buying some whale meat willingly pays the merchant at the meat market.

But that whale meat was acquired because one group killed the whale before another group. And that group killed the whale first because they setup groups who threatened other would-be whale hunters, and as this group gained a bit of financial traction they paid off local officials to pass some “coastal safety” ordinances that provide them some level of monopoly on killing whales, and worked out another ordinance that lets them dump toxic byproduct in a local river to place some of their cost into the public that won’t be easily rectified for decades.

So a perfectly ethical capitalist fisherman might well find themselves facing men with guns who forcefully prevent them from competing, when the police show up to enforce the local coastal safety law.