Plaw, Let me try to explain alittle better. Capitalism means you make your money how you want and can do whatever you want with it with no govermental interference. Lets go back when america first formed and started capitalism. Keep in mind the formula for capitalsim M-C=M1(You have money to buy a commodity, you sell the commodity and make profit) So on that first day how did america setup an economy from capitalism which REQUIRES you to have money to buy the commodity in the first place? Your answer is slavery. The slave trade basically turned america into a developed country and got the ball rolling for capitalism. And it then just progressed to how it is today. Just think these guys had slaves they didnt have to pay a cent to to pick their cotton, pick their food, so their owners can sell the materials overseas to europe and make their profit. Thats how our country got its money in the beginning. They called it the "Triangular Trade" (Europe send slaves to America, America uses slaves to harvest raw materials, America sells to europe) That's the foundation of capitalism, that's how it all started. It's just only changed slightly to how it is today, the exploited are born and raised here and are the minority minimum wage workers, nowadays is not pure slavery, but basically a form of it.