Is a hyper-competitive, dog-eat-dog, winner-take-all market the best way to insure economic growth for all?

    “Is…improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconvenience to society?…What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole.  No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

The Wealth of Nations