Correction " took out more than $450 MILLION (From SEC filings) before he left the company.

You miss the point that Capitalism requires voluntary business decisions. Capitalism and "free markets" require cooperation and working together by individuals that have different goals and motivations. This happens millions of times in millions of ways in order to innovate, create, produce, distribute and sell products. It is a respectful, cooperative, lawful process. The participants can make other choices and do. But prices are set when a seller will accept what a buyer will pay.

Force is when someone not involved in the transaction imposes behavior on behalf of someone else.

"(1) what is smarts in one situation is not necessarily smarts in another" is pablum and uninteresting.

"2) what you say about working harder etc. depends on a level playing field, which we have not got" Nonsense. Only a quitter or someone looking for an excuse for lacking ability blames the playing field.

I have a friend who at 14 with his older brother came illegally from Mexico. He worked hard, became a citizen, earned an engineering degree, started a company and took out more than $450 (From SEC filings) before he left the company. America offers opportunity for those that got the balls and brains and want it.

Yeah, it is called a one party system. Marx predicted the masses would revolt and over throw the Capitalistic systems the created lousy working conditions and low wages. Unfortunately, Politicians had to compete for votes. As there were, and are, relatively less rich people, to win elections the politicians had win over the workers.

The 8 hour day, 40 hours a week was a socialist idea (China's labor law is 8 hour work days and a 44 hour week) and implemented by the Capitalist Ford.

As this is where you ask, "Where did Ford get his money?" He was smart and was financed by other guys who had money and liked Ford's ideas.

Smith, you gotta read both of his books), David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill all discussed the relationship of capital, land, labor and human nature. It seems natural to mankind to want to own things. Work, live and have a little more is a natural propensity for humans. If a man is smarter, works harder and uses his income wisely he ends up with more than the guy who doesn't use his smarts, screws off and pisses away his income.

Socialism ignores that men are not equal in ability and not equal in what they want. By force, Socialism attempts to make all men equal, except for the leaders and favored few. The force comes by taking from the rich, appropriation or taxation, and giving some to the poor. But the in power guys do the natural thing and acquire more stuff cuz they can.