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why did anyone trade prior to capitalism?

• SR2Z 5mo 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...
  • pasquinelli 5mo ago
    so how's it the beauty of capitalism?
    • SR2Z 5mo ago
      'cause that's the one where you get to own things?
      • pasquinelli 5mo ago
        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?