And so what. Who remembers that history, and why is capital a bad word? Almost anybody can have capital in something, if only their own skills and time. For the few unfortunates truly limited by circumstance there is charity — for everybody else, capitalism.
Again, the polls say that the word (not so much the SYSTEM) turns people off. Why are Republicans so numb to the truths of marketing? And it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the word does turn people off. Communists invented it for that very reason.
By the way, a pile of excrement will smell up your place even if no one remembers when it was deposited.
The problem is that you can have a crony capitalism which enables people to make a lot of money by propping up failure.
This country was founded on the concept of free enterprise. It is very different than capitalism.