Yes, people have had capitalism since Homo Sapiens emerged. It just became more sophisticated, enabling higher levels of productivity. Institutions like contra

Yes, people have had capitalism since Homo Sapiens emerged. It just became more sophisticated, enabling higher levels of productivity. Institutions like contract law and constitutionally limited government helped the reign in corruption to some extent. If corruption is to mean deceit, abuse and exploitation, corruption has existed since as long as humans have existed. That is why homicide rates in prehistory were 30%.