No you on the wrong track suppliers and consumers are a construct. You need to go back to the point you were born, it was demand (need) and supply (a loving parent) and as the relationship evolved (eating of an apple if you're religious) the earth the supply and people the need, the economic atoms of supply and demand are a fact in nature that determine the optimum for managing the limit of supply - and not accepting the limit is innovation,  psychopaths gaining control create a self managing system that is now obsolete.