> If I want to have more than you, and I can get it by [exploiting labour and existing material resources]... why not? >If I can't get rewarded for [exploiting

> If I want to have more than you, and I can get it by [exploiting labour and existing material resources]... why not? >If I can't get rewarded for [exploiting labour and material resources], I probably won't [exploit labour and material resources]. >First, society doesn't get the extra that some people would have been motivated to produce. "Society" doesn't get that extra anyway, if we are talking about billionaires keeping hold of an 11-figure income. The same labour and material resources exist in the world either way (perhaps moreso, if they are not used up unsustainably to the point of scarcity); the "extra" only accrues to the person doing the exploiting.