This is true.

VALUE is created by LABOR. CAPITAL increases the value-creating capacity of labor. So in fact, the basis of capitalism is sound: the purveyor of the capital is RIGHTLY JUSTIFIED in PARTAKING of the additional value created by labor through the use of the thusly productive capital: Buildings, equipment, facilities, etc.

HOWEVER, and this is where so-called "capitalism" has gone WAY overboard is where instead of "partaking", the capital owner STEALS all of the additional value AND MORE, driving their workers into destitution worse than if they were peasants raising sheep and living off the land.

You don't believe me? Over the past 60 years, the inflation-adjusted per-worker purchasing power has decreased markedly! Even though the "inflation" number has been doctored for well over a decade now. Maybe 2.

But how is this possible in a so-called free market? It isn't. The market is anything but free. The only free market is the labor market: the one who is the most desperate gets the job, ready to do more work for less pay. And as despair grows, so the trend continues, and corporate profits increase.

We are reaching the breaking point however, when Joe Average just can't make ends meet.