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        1 year ago

        An innocent person who commits a crime is no longer an innocent person.

        A vegetarian who starts eating meat is no longer a vegetarian.

        A capitalist who enslaves someone is no longer a capitalist.

        I’m so sorry you have trouble with this basic definition, but capitalism is a free market system. Slaves are not free, and that economic relationship is not a free market relationship.

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        1 year ago

        From wikipedia:

        Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.[1][2][3][4] Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.

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            A definition cannot he said to match or to not match real world conditions.

            Like if I define a square as a quadrilateral with equal sides, that’s independent (orthogonal, even, pun intended) of whether any quadrilaterals with equal sides are around.

            I don’t think it makes any sense to talk about whether a definition reflects reality. That’s not really what a definition is. They can’t be true or untrue.

            Statements are true or untrue, but for a definition the concept of truth or falsity doesn’t make sense.