Are Capitalists Thieves?

Mamdani is apparently saying

Taxation isn't theft, capitalism is!!

Well, he's got a sort of point. Too many capitalists are not paying their workers what they are worth.

Setting aside the concept of paying workers more than they are worth, which is a management concept that bears exploration -- 

When a business owner refuses to pay his employers what they are worth, we can say he gets what he pays for.

Or we can say he doesn't get what he doesn't pay for.

Or we can say he often doesn't (even) get what he pays for.

But we have trouble saying he gets what he doesn't pay for.

If he does get what he doesn't pay for, it's only temporary, and he eventually pays the price for it. How far down the road it is before he pays the price determines how many others have to pay, too.

The trouble with applying that analysis to Mamdani's claim that capitalists are thieves is that we know some capitalists are thieves. Not all, but we do know there are some stupid capitalists who seem to enjoy polluting the very marketplace where they make their money.

But we also know all socialists are thieves.