"Jack. Have you ever read Marx? "

Not everything he wrote. What I did read was more criticism than optimism. "Let the workers grab the factories by force and own them themselves" is not exactly what Jesus taught. But it was a Labor Economics course. The prof apparently thought that Marx best expressed the workers' point of view. Lots of crapping on the status quo for sure. Marx made some good points and was an incisive economic thinker. But Ayn Rand also made a couple of good points in her clumsy stories. I am sure the best system, while far form perfect for all, is between those two poles.