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In order for that to occur one needs large numbers of people surviving. The current human population would not be remotely sustainable without capitalism. Even many very poor countries are only able to keep their near starving populations from completely dying out due to this.
What's your point? Your argument has a problem, not necessarily your conclusion. You argue that your conclusion is right, but I don't disagree, my comment was about the specific argument you used.
My point is that you can't have large numbers of people to steal from unless there's already a lot of wealth in the system, so your criticism of the argument doesn't work.
It's a coincidental and not obviously correct consideration. There could be enough people on whole Earth, however they live. There certainly can be many people living under non-capitalistic system (China at the appropriate epoch). If there weren't enough people, there could be if Earth was bigger.
That's a good point. I withdraw my argument.
If Earth was bigger, those additional people would be further away and thus unavailable to steal from.