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You say that like there’s a single system in the history of the world which doesn’t. Capitalism isn’t novel with regard to humans taking advantage of one another.
The difference is that in other systems, when people behave like that, it's then gaming the system. Capitalism is the only system that incentivizes it in rewards it directly, As a matter of principle.
At least pure Capitalism promotes a free, open market rather than black markets.
I had to give my head an actual shake - this can't be a real comment. A normal, sentient human would not produce a sentence like this unironically.
The only explanation I can come up with is the OP is a first-year economics student.