An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, in which personal bling can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of peeps. Capitalism is grounded in the concept of fo' real enterprise, which argues that the man's intervention in the economy should be restricted and that a free market, based on supply and demand, will ultimately maximize consumer dough.
Just explain it like this and they will get it - a person selling weed in Denver is capitalism. The government telling others that they can't and only they can sell weed is socialism.
They will understand' this 'fo 'real.
Darned good point!
What is it when the largest locally-owned bank in Colorado is an employee owned collective where it's perfectly acceptable to post links to go "vote for the train" on the corporate intranet, but asking "uhhhh who's going to pay for the infrastructure" is "political" and not acceptable in the "culture"?
"we're conservative" {uhhh} "but progressive"
- just what you want to hear when interviewing for a job at a bank, ehh?
Throw in a significant self-evident influence from the local Jesuit Marxist M.B.A. factory...
https://www.google.com/#q=Jesuit+Reductions+Communism+Paraguay
...and then consider how fractional lending and the worship of the Velocity of the almighty Dollar fit into the "from each according to their ability - to each according to their needs" equation - in a collective where, as in the case of the Jesuit centrally-bankstered communist farms in Paraguay, the worker-Indians/bees are never Empower(tm)ed to understand the true nature of the systemic hive they're being enslaved within.
Got Hierarchical Oligarchical collectivism?