> You succeed by being successful, greedy or not.

That's not really what I was trying to say. The pure Capitalist system doesn't care about the unsuccessful, for whatever the reason is that they are. Capatlism has no moral basis and creates no moral judgments. Society itself has to.

You don't think Capitalism is based on greed? Greed motivates people, which is why Socialism fails. To quote Gordan Gecko, "Greed is good". Ok, so maybe that is perhaps not the best source to use. How about one from the father of modern economics, John Maynard Keynes:

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."

I'm not saying that is bad. Hell, it works, supply side economics is not all complete BS. But it alone is not enough.