This quote brought to me how naive that view can be:

> I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others. Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man. A high income is not only justified, but there is nobility to it.

Truly believing that free markets have some inherent morality in its mechanisms was not something I considered before, probably because I came from a poor background and have seen how flawed that assumption is in reality.

Thanks for sharing it, definitely worth the read much more than just the burnout section.