#Capitalism is... ? (Many things or one thing?)
#Capitalism is... (many things according to many comments below)
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.
@damiendeecee you don't understand how feudalism created the conditions for capitalistic profit.
feudalism FORCEFULLY created a master servant system with an ARTIFICIALLY large "working class"
the key point is LARGE working class at the bottom.
all human competence shows a bell curve, few at the top and bottom with the majority in the MIDDLE. feudalism created the classic /\ pyramid hierarchy with a LARGER class at the bottom, ARTIFICIALLY as I just explained.
- @Fuji_62
As long as a single group doesn't determine the currency and it's characteristics, capitalism is generally awesome.
- @jasonshults368
Without free banking, a money monopoly will exist, will tax, will destroy the economy. Free banking requires a free country, i.e., no statism (authoritarianism). That exists nowhere.
- @1voluntaryist
[ithadtobesaid on youtube] He is saying that it isnt normal to work long hours and that this is the result of violence and that the rich stole all the resources and have all the money and we have to go work for them our entire life go get money from them. And he is saying that in anarchy noone would use money, people wouldnt trade but own everything commonly, in the same way that grass is available for all deer, i guess. What do you think?
- @cxtxlin_cx
=========================
DEFINITIONS THAT SEEM OK BUT...
💬 Just have a look at the dictionary definition of capitalism. It's simple: private ownership of the means of production.
Larken uses the universal definition.
- @damiendeecee
⚠️ MY COMMENT: Even the simplest version above seems to invoke more "What does X mean - so private ownership means more than just a piece of paper, it's inside a systems what has more and more rabbit holes than just "you own it" and that's it - it has taxes, rules, regulations, government ownership as some other entity above all this (Government registers all underneath it like a membership club allowing it certain "rights" it can do on it's behalf)
And then there is money and external banks which is loaning debt or "money" banks often don't have! (if Capitalism is without money and like someone said more words lots of object for another lots then OK it's A LOT EASIER if they also don't use money) but even Governments and banks working together are political (not just accumulation, but they choose who gets the money, often public money for private development and go on wars and escapades for all of it to circle back again (for conquering more places and people?).
This is the dirty-ness of all of it, not being sure how private and ownership exists without all this as it's hard to cut off global perspective or prospects and contracts by governments to do it's work for them. Money as debt and oppression / cheating it's people and then others... also can't be part of the equation if talking about neutrality of just owning.
Aaaaaaaanyway seems simple but then words often have mmmaaaaaaaany meanings....
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP 
!
