The progressives' collectivist entitlement mentality equates all of capitalism with Marxist class warfare resentment and exploitation. They have no concepts of production, trading value for value, or the distinction between the earned and the unearned. They regard the pursuit of profit and self interest as evil because they are altruists on principle. With that kind of ethical base, how could they associate economic competition with anything but a warfare worse than force and fraud?

My question is why people think competition is so good. I reject the premise that liberals or anyone else associate competition with force and fraud. People associate competition with healthy markets and sometimes see something sinister in someone who creates a new product or service that there's no competition for.