[frzj]

> Capitalism/trade is generally morally good for all consenting stakeholders (with a few exceptions such as taking advantage of addictions) and morally ambivalent for everyone else. It is so because morality is the affirmitation of societal norms.

> I wish more adults understood the above. Capitalism isn't always an unadulterated good (for people outside of the exchange) but it mostly is positive-sum good for people within the exchange, and we need government to implement taxes that prevent the former and otherwise mostly stay out of the way for the latter.

Your argument goes the way that lousing each other is beneficial to all if there are strict rules and punishment for those that don't louse back, instead of simply washing yourself or seeking other ways to delouse oneself. I'm well off and thanks to wide diversification of assets my future descendants will have all the time in the world to wonder why people still equate labor and property.