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I don’t think someone is inherently a bad person just by having a lot of money. It’s what they do with the money that counts. And even bad people deserve human rights such as not being cannibalized.
As for capitalism, it seems that most problems that are commonly attributed to it are actually just a matter of bad regulation. For example, intellectual property is precisely the opposite of capitalism – the government artificially prevents a market from being free by granting a legally enforced monopoly.