Capitalism and Democracy
From the very dawn of intelligent human interaction to the present day,
the concept of capitalism has dominated the way we trade goods and
acquire wealth. Except for the necessity of a simple communist society in
pre-modern times, or the noble humanistic notion of a socialist society,
the free market has always been the most efficient way to run the economy
once the most basic needs of life have been satisfied. Only during the
last several hundred years has the idea of a modern democracy been
developed and applied through the modern state. These two concepts are
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