If you separate capitalists and landlords out as different classes (in the Georgist sense) then you can say that landlords have extracted rent for far longer th

If you separate capitalists and landlords out as different classes (in the Georgist sense) then you can say that landlords have extracted rent for far longer than capitalists have been around; it took the Industrial Revolution to move from the guild-based master and apprentice model to a capital-based owner and worker model of production.