Someone who owns and controls sufficient means of production that they can employ and exploit workers.
A capitalist can mean a person who accumulates wealth or money through free enterprise or buying and selling. A capitalist can also simply mean a very wealthy person.
Another term for a capitalist system is a Laissez-faire system.
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If there were no private property rights then there could be no private businesses and that would mean that it would not be a capitalist system.
Another term for a capitalist system is a Laissez-faire system.
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Capitalist economy
Probably, but only in term of natural ressources
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If there were no private property rights then there could be no private businesses and that would mean that it would not be a capitalist system.
If you're thinking in the Marx context, the term is bourgeoisie.
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The French word bourgeoisie originally referred to middle class tradesmen and shopkeepers, as opposed to common laborers. The term later came to mean the dissolute or indulgent lifestyle of the upper class, as a general indictment of capitalism.Noun : bourgeiosie (capitalist, aristocrat)Adjective : bourgeois (banal, monotonous, prosaic)
Itβs capitalist: wages system, class ownership, production for profit. And capitalist countries have capitalist governments.