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I would argue that capitalism isn't necessarily motivated by greed, though it is an easy vehicle for greed to use. I believe that societal morality is thoroughly intermingled into economics. A free economic system, like a free political system, presupposes that its participants understand and accept the responsibility that accompanies freedom--the responsibility to do right with their freedom (basically the Golden Rule). Because some take advantage of their freedom to wrong others, we have had to restrict those freedoms to some extent. That is one of the legitimate purposes of government--to protect its people, whether from outsiders or each other. IMO, this is still capitalism in a reasonably "pure" form (I put utopian capitalism in the same Category as utopian communism--utopian dreams rather than actual politico-economic systems). It is when government attempts to shape the economic direction and structure that it oversteps its bounds and moves away from capitalism.