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When did Capitalism start in the US?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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15y ago

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The USA has enjoyed a reasonably free market mixed economy, However it is not a capitalist country. in a capitalist country there would be absolutely no involvement in public welfare, you would not have your prisons full of junkies because there would be no reason to deny people their freedom to kill them selves there would be no bailout with socially raised money to bail out an irresponsible finance sector to save the man in the street from starving to death. all of these bad things would simply be described as things that are a natural part of ta free market economy and for "the good of mankind", which is also a socialist concept.

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Both capitalism and socialism existed long before the words were invented, and different societies have had, and still have, various mixes of them.

If a tribe of cave men set out on a hunt, felled a big animal, and everyone took meat, that was socialism. If a guy who was good at making spears made a bunch of spears and traded them for meat, hides, or whatever, that was capitalism.

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8y ago

It started in Europe in the 18th century when bankers, merchants, and workers began to displace landowners in political, economic, and social importance.

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12y ago

During the Renaissance, towards the end of the Middle Ages during the decline of feudalism.

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=the capitalism start in US year of 1866=

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