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by SR2Z 29 days ago
Consensual trade between rational actors leads to both of them benefiting. Before capitalism, the ideology which focused on property rights and individual freedoms didn't really have a name...
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so how's it the beauty of capitalism?
'cause that's the one where you get to own things?
if that's the one where you get to own things then there wasn't trade before capitalism, because you can't trade things without ownership. is that what you're saying?