Most people misunderstand capitalism because they’ve never learned what it actually is. At its core, it’s just people choosing—like kids trading cookies by choice, not by force.
Category: Capitalism
❧Ways to Teach Economics to Your Children
Economics is not first learned in classrooms, markets, or ballot boxes. It is learned in the home. Long before children encounter taxes, debt, or inflation, they are already forming beliefs about money, work, fairness, and responsibility. If parents do not teach these truths deliberately, the State and the screen will fill the vacuum — and they will not teach freedom. Children must learn early the difference between voluntary help and forced redistribution, between charity and control, between earning and entitlement. These lessons do not require jargon or ideology. They require only simple questions, lived examples, and the courage to tell the truth plainly. A child who understands choice, consequence, and scarcity does not grow into a cruel adult. They grow into a competent one. And competence, not sentiment, is the foundation of a free society.
The First Anti-Capitalists
History did not begin with a workers’ uprising against greedy factory owners. It began with aristocrats furious that ordinary men could finally earn more than a peasant’s wage. The first class warriors were not laborers — they were lords. When capitalism started lifting the poor, the privileged revolted, not to protect the weak, but to preserve their own place at the top. The great scandal of capitalism was not poverty; it was the escape from poverty.
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