#Capitalism is... ? (Many things or one thing?)
From comments on video:
(there is something about this word and it's evolution that is terribly circular but nuances worth mapping out)
💬 Capitalism is excess of wealth, resources, power that's used to make more capital.
💬 Capitalism also has nothing do with volunteering, willfully making choices...
💬 Through capital gains governments/gangs/armies arise which will enforce that groups rule.
💬 Authority arises from accumulation of power which authorities intent is to remove threat to itself, all competition and opposition to itself.
💬 This is heart of capitalism is to remove competition and free trade.. not facilitate its continuation.
💬 When one has produced more than one has need of, and saves the surplus, or exchanges the surplus for something else, one has capitalism.
💬 When one gives what one has produced to another voluntarily, one has charity.
💬 When one has what one has produced taken involuntarily (be it surplus or not) one has experienced theft.
💬 Should one argue against capitalism, that one either argues for charity or for theft.
💬 Capitalism isn't about regulation, it's about investment and return, and may be free or encumbered by legislation.
