[edouard-harris]

I agree terms like "value capture" or "wealth extraction" would probably be more descriptive. But note that I only mentioned "things like theft" in the gp, so I think we're really talking about the same sorts of activities.

[akiselev]

Theft is only the most extreme and one sided example of what I mean by "capture" or "extraction." The best example (and most common) is salaried employment - many people produce far more value than they are able to capture in the form of a salary because they don't have enough leverage. Value is decoupled from currency even though we far too often use the latter to measure the former (IMO, I'm not an economist).