The free market system emphasizes the effort to multiply the pies so that everyone has a big slice. It has been estimated that the production of goods and services in the western world is now more than one hundred times as great as it was when Adam Smith wrote his great book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . In America even the unemployed now have a multitude of goods and services undreamed of by noblemen centuries ago. The quality of life and the quantity of knowledge has multiplied even more rapidly than the production of goods. A principal dimension of a market economy is competition.
Some Christian ministers focus on dividing the pie rather than multiplying the pie.
Subconsciously they assume that prosperity for one causes poverty for another, whereas in truth the abundance of God is so infinite that prosperity for one automatically increases the prosperity for all. Competition is not one person stepping on another. Competition is each person trying to produce more and more goods and services with lower costs, higher quality and greater variety. The diligence of one competitor produces diligence in other competitors. Helping others enables them to help others.