Sure, fair enough, I'm conflating the two for the sake of simplicity, and frankly because the idea of a "limit on wealth accumulation" is a fairly muddy distinc

Sure, fair enough, I'm conflating the two for the sake of simplicity, and frankly because the idea of a "limit on wealth accumulation" is a fairly muddy distinction. (A limit placed by whom? enforced how? etc. Even with soft limits this would still be called "capitalism" would it not?) I guarantee that most people, including the the person I'm responding to, do not make a distinction between market economies and capitalism in the manner you just did. He's talking about Star Trek utopia, nothing grounded in reality or history.