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trembo slice's avatar

Define capitalists

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Christofer Nigro's avatar

The small handful of people who privately own productive property that workers use to create and distribute the products and services we need without having to do any significant work themselves and who retain the vast majority of the money made by sales and contracts because they own it on paper. And they have increasingly been making their fortune off of capital gains, i.e., investing in no-risk ventures that are guaranteed by the government, which once more puts paid to the idea that the government is the enemy of capitalists rather than their servant.

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