I'm not sure I like the 'Moocher mindset' Idea.
People coming from a perspective of scarcity in the west IS I agree a problem, but, it's not so much that it's bad for society as it's bad for the individual. I mean, yes in the long run it's bad for society as these people are miserable / make bad decisions. But I don't view it as them 'stealing' value.
To take the trading example. Stock and Futures exchanges are fundamentally useful, if they were not useful, companies would not use them to get investment and to sell risk and investors would not use them to buy risk. So the whole stock exchange apparatus is providing value.
The reason that exchanges set off the moocher alarm is that day traders and their organization make a whole lot of money on these exchanges without being obviously necessary for the functioning of the exchange. Why?
The answer is that pricing companies is very difficult and so you need these traders to price the companies so when 'real' investors want to sell shares the price is accurate. Do they really need to make such massive profits though? No, but they do manage, because companies getting investment and investors buying risk do not have the necessary information to force the exchanges to be honest.
And this is, I think, a better way of describing the problem of economic inefficiencies than 'mooching'.
Inefficient market rules, incomplete information and false beliefs are the root of all mooching. I think to tackle this problem you'd be better off educating the people buying the services such that they only buy real value than trying to stop the 'Moochers' themselves.
Although legislating against emotive advertising would probably be a good side act.
