> Price signals are an important part of ensuring that resources go where they're needed, but this also sort of assumes that everyone has an equal capacity to pay.
Right, but it's not claimed that price signals is some all-powerful force to drive behavior. It just ensures "resources go where they're needed" in aggregate. Well resourced individuals can still use their money to override that as they see fit.
They're not overriding anything - those with the money pays more to obtain the right to decide where the resources go.
But they _can_ pay more because they've produced the wealth in the past (and did not consume it). If their will could be overridden at a moment's notice, then this stored wealth means less, and thus people would choose to consume more and not invest, and thus, the overall aggregate wealth would be reduced.
Right, but it's not claimed that price signals is some all-powerful force to drive behavior. It just ensures "resources go where they're needed" in aggregate. Well resourced individuals can still use their money to override that as they see fit.