"Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net be

"Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man." Oh my the author has not lived. Under this definition, as an example, Sam Bankman-Fried has provided far more net benefit to his fellow man than Norman Borlaug. Clearly the author values billions of dollars over a billion lives. Which may be why he's in consulting in the first place.