In this scenario, only one of these two groups takes my money by force.
The "permanent state of war" is part of a leftist meme (there's that word again. Would "pantload" work better?) that goes back many years in many places.
I've worked for a few corporations that produced consumer products, and I guarantee you that everyone I worked for and with had making the customer happy and delivering quality very high on their lists. There were a lot of others out there willing to do it in our place.
But again, if we can convince others that the successfully productive are evil, it's only a short step to convincing them that they don't deserve their wealth, and we have the right to loot it from them. This is the core of class warfare, and why the rich have to be painted as the bad guys.