&gt; Capitalism is about maximizing profit, with seemingly no regard for ethics or morals.<p>The idea that organizing a system of legal structures (particularly, property rights) the way that capitalism does is not one made with &quot;no regard for ethics or morals&quot; is incorrect; instead, it reflects a decision that doing so <i>is</i> a moral good, either intrinsically (e.g., that the structure of capitalism <i>directly reflects</i> moral axioms, a common argument from those who hold to a view of &quot;natural rights&quot; to property that align with the structure of capitalist property rights) or because it serves some other good (the usually &quot;other good&quot; referenced is the common good from an aggregate utilitarian perspective, with reference to the optimality of markets in maximizing realized utility in the absence of externalities under the assumptions of rational choice theory.)