Capitalism is a system of economics where you invest 'capital' into ventures and get money (more than your investment) if it succeeds. It is a system that rewards people with ideas. People who spew the whole: rich get richer, poor get poorer are slightly off. If you have an idea, you can get rich. In other systems, like communism or socialism, you have no way to improve your lot in life, but with capitalism, you at least have a chance
capitalism doesn't exist only to feed fat greedy wealthy white men.
N. Korea=less wealthy than America
N. Korea=less wealthy than America
by b0rees November 4, 2004
Get the capitalismmug. by Garface September 23, 2005
Get the capitalismmug. An economic system best suited to match mans personality and behavior. Capitalism is characterized by private ownership, and little or no government interfeirence in the marketplace. This is a great system if the government doesn't get involved. Capitalism is responsible for the high status of life ALL Americans enjoy on a daily basis.
A person wants money , so he makes a product and sells it. The person who buys that product gets that money from wages earned making other products, and so goes the cycle.
by mitch November 23, 2004
Get the capitalismmug. Terrible system where a lucky few are born into obscene wealth while the average person has to work 8 hours a day just to stay alive and those who can't find work starve to death.
We must never abandon capitalism because I deserved all 100 million of my dollars because I got lucky and was born into a rich family.
by Eddy December 23, 2003
Get the capitalismmug. The word is so naturalized that it would be impossible to give an example. But just look at the American Dream, the disparities between rich and poor, and all the third world countries. You'll then get a picture of what "Capitalism" really means, and how it's essentailly a euphemism for what could be more acurrately described as a sort of pyramid scheme.
by b-dalt March 30, 2005
Get the capitalismmug. A political system whereby the educated (rich) can expoit the uneducated (poor) to satisfy their own greed and lust for power. A system where a persons role in society is determined by the class he or she is born into. THIS IS MY MAIN PROBLEM WITH CAPITALISM. It is a natural progression from a dynastical system of government i.e from monarchy to the Bushes and Murdochs. Power and influence remains in the hands of the few ruling families. Relies on the ideas of social Darwinism, whereby corperations and nations behave like animals, competing with each other for resources (sound familiar?), and the fittest (or most ruthless and inhuman). The inevitable conclusion is that billions live in poverty while the lucky few live like kings. This new form of aristocrat treats those supposedly below him in the social heirarchy with disdain. Those with principals and compassion are ridiculed and treated as pariahs. With no central control or direction this will inevitably result in the squandering of the earths natural resources and the end of civilisaiton, unless a new, more efficient, fairer system is introduced. This is not communism (State controlled capitalism), and it is not anarchy. Capitalism cannot be sustained for much longer, although it did have one positive effect on humanity, modernisation through industrialisation. But its purpose has been fulfilled, the capitalists have to step aside and give the rest of us a go.
by Fisher September 24, 2003
Get the capitalismmug. Quite possibly the worst economic system ever developed. Essentially results in a cutthroat economy in which the poor become poorer and the rich become richer. Has likely resulted in vastly more that the 100 million deaths which communism is inaccurately attributed to having caused.
Capitalist: I've inherited all of this money, so I'll go and start a business where I rely on the labors of the minimum-wage proletariat, while I simply sit in my office all day, contributing nothing, all while being paid $5,000,000 a year! ¡Viva capitalism!
by Daedalus_Prime January 9, 2008
Get the capitalismmug.