generously attributing a generation to be 30 years, 1000s of generations infers capitalism has been chugging along for at least 30,000 years, haha good one
People who say things like this don’t believe capitalism is a specific economic mode, but rather, a vaguely defined set of character traits or even abstract ideas. They’ll say ancient Rome was capitalist because there were merchants and money. They’ll say atoms are capitalist because they trade electrons. It’s a very unserious framework and they use it because it allows them to define capitalism as “good thing” and everything else as “bad thing.”
generously attributing a generation to be 30 years, 1000s of generations infers capitalism has been chugging along for at least 30,000 years, haha good one
People who say things like this don’t believe capitalism is a specific economic mode, but rather, a vaguely defined set of character traits or even abstract ideas. They’ll say ancient Rome was capitalist because there were merchants and money. They’ll say atoms are capitalist because they trade electrons. It’s a very unserious framework and they use it because it allows them to define capitalism as “good thing” and everything else as “bad thing.”
Capitalism is when you trade clams for flint arrowheads and the more clams you get the capitalister it is.