Maybe successful players in a free market eventually acquire enough power that they can subvert whatever government is managing property rights in the first pla

Maybe successful players in a free market eventually acquire enough power that they can subvert whatever government is managing property rights in the first place, and what you end up with is a twisted corruption of the supposedly 'pure' free market you started with. It's often said that socialism works great 'on paper' but not in practice. When you ignore how unchecked capitalism plays off the rest of the society it's a part of, you commit the same offense.