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Although it's disturbing, economics shows that this is the best way to optimize a complex system.

People with more needs are willing to pay more, generally.

There are caveats, but these are generally built into economics models. Best to let the experts in government decide on how capitalism should play out. A lot of arm-chair socialists around here demonstrating their lack of education.




> Best to let the experts in government decide on how capitalism should play out

I'm having a hard time parsing that thought. It seems self contradictory, at least if you view capitalism as primarily defined as voluntary trades free from government interference.




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