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> The Amish in question are entrepreneurial for sure but that's not capitalism. The Amish keep their surplus labor value. It saddens me to see how fundamentally people misunderstand what capitalism actually is.

wish more people understood the historical roots of the word "entrepreneur". americans conflate business/enterprise/entrepreneurship with capitalism. i think most people would be more open to these ideas if it weren't from the misinformation dating back to the red scare.



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