That’s what I say. Capitalism is nothing but the innate exchange between people for desired products and services. It is fundamental and elemental to all societies.
I was in Iraq soon after the invasion and capitalism was everywhere. People were hustling - selling goods, produce, just about anything they could grow, steal or import. Dollars ruled. I have a great pic of a farmer transporting onions in a truck on MSR Tampa which I took as we drove past. The bed was packed high with onions in a pyramid several feet above the bed walls. Like something from a grocery store display. No netting or anything, just stacked and balanced.
No rules, no regulations, no controls. Just free, unfettered commerce. Yeah, capitalism.
Rush said it best, the problem is not an unequal distribution of wealth, it’s the unequal distribution of Capitalism.