I am valiantly resisting starting a Well Actually with a stranger on the internet over one of my pet peeves: defining every possible action with some resource-based motive as "capitalism", including those in eras before the concept of capitalism was even invented.
I swear, it's the leftist version of calling the government doing anything good "socialism”. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS*, people! Augh!
(* Subject to usage, so when misused, their meaning broadens--and we lose clarity/precision. Sigh.)
The whole capitalist/socialist/communist thing has been bugging me for a couple of decades now.
They're economic systems - that's all. People have started expanding them to include whatever they love or hate about social and governance issues, and since there's no objective criteria to go back to, the words are basically meaningless in most common contexts.
