Capitalism isn’t a system we create—it’s simply how humans naturally act when free to trade and produce.
It doesn’t create inequality—inequality is a fact of life, and capitalism just allows people to build value based on their own efforts.
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Crony-capitalism is when the government manipulates markets with favoritism or with massive companies like Blackrock that can sway markets with financial manipulation.
This tought was an answer to my AI after asking it what capitalism was. I had to teach it a thing or two.
Capitalism has only existed for 0.174℅ of Human history, and that's being generous
(Humanity = 300.000years and Capitalism 1500AD-present)
It wasn't invented by someone. It dosen't have a date of creation like you seem to believe.
You're right it's an emergent system, the seeds of it grew out of the systems before until it became the status quo. We didn't create or invent it deliberately, but it is comprised entirely of human behavior so in that sense we do actively recreate it. It's natural in the sense that literally everything is "natural", because it emerged organically. But to say it's " just the way things are" is a myopic and ahistorical viewpoint. Capitalism isn't trade itself, it's a protocol for conducting trade defined by how we as a species define and enforce property rights. Like all other systems there was a time before it and there will be a time after it.
