Reply #1: What I find really fascinating is the concept of serving the economy.

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The economy is a system that has effects, and conditions some actions above others, and rewards some actions above others.

It really isn't much more then that. As far as job creation, that is done either by demand or stimulus, you could argue that wealthy people crate jobs by discretionary spending when they want to expand with investment, but that is no different then government stimulus if not driven by demand.

However it is different by who decides where spending occurs, should it be people that are capable of making money in a system, including what the system requires to make money, or should where spending occurs be from consensus of society.

That is really much of the debate. If you argue that people have much money because they are suppose to, or because it means they have the some talent that allows them to better decide where that money should go, then you support private sector oligarchy.

If you think a consensus of many people in all of society should decide where money is spent then you support some form of societal government.

There are some arguments about efficiency since the profit motive makes more production per unit of business, but that would only matter in a world with more demand then supply. But the profit motive can also add a higher level of corruption into that sector.