Actually, capitalism is based on rule of laws (not men); private property rights; and enforcing honest exchanges / contracts between consenting adults.

Which one does Ev disagree with? Private property? Hah! Children naturally learn immediately what is "theirs", what they have control over, and what is not. Who owns/controls which toy? Which car? Which house, factory, or other scarce resource? Even in "socialist" families of loving husband, wife, and children, who controls and makes decisions over the family resources is often a big issue.

Hey Ev, you ready to let your Mother in law tell your family what to do with your money? If not, why not?

Most poverty in the world occurs because property rights and contracts are not fairly enforced; in particular, between rich local elites and local peasants. This is a failure of government -- whose rightful job is to fairly define & enforce property rights and honest contracts.

Every communist HAS to believe: the end justifies the means. The "good socialist" end justifies the inevitable oppression against those who disagree.

The good means I specified above allow some greedy & selfish folk to lie/ cheat others, but this is far less harm than other alternatives.

On the other hand, "intellectual property" is BS -- copying increases the wealth of the world without "hurting" the one copied from. It does reduce, not eliminate, the market value based on scarcity of whatever is copied.