What are the minimum unique features to identify an economy as capitalist?
didn't tend to feature property you weren't just momentarily enjoying at the king's pleasure did they
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I'm not sure anything passes that test though, does it? Maybe the minimum bar is "sufficient power for private concerns to resist the order of the sovereign somewhat"?
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hot take: capitalism originated with the magna carta
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well, technically when you were say, a rich trader and could buy say, a house, it would be usually yours in the full modern sense and beyond, unless you peed into king or his closest cronies's hush puppies, no? Modern USA has emdom, sssssooooo...
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maybe the real neofeudalism was the friends we made along the way
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unless you own one of the plots exempted from property tax by grandfathered royal charter fun fact: in New Jersey most of these are owned by former Governor Christie Whitman
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