“Capitalism is a means to an end, it can be a force for good, or it can be a force for bad, depending on the motives.”
From Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”:
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
Adam Smith wrote another book called, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”