[dragonwriter]

> You mean linked?

No, I meant exactly what I said.

> Capitalism is what lets the people make economic decisions

No, it isn't. Capitalism is the organization of power around a narrow elite defined by the ownership of the non-financial means of production, the feature for which it was named. It was (at least initially) progress in the direction of democracy from control of the same thing being in even narrower hands than the early mercantile class defined by ownership of land under systems like feudalism, to be sure.

But, still, ultimately it conflicts with the equal distribution of power defining democracy.

They are rationalized as consistent by pretending that economic and political power are different things, rather than different applications of the same, undivided, power.