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capitalism
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
(Edited)

Marija was really the capitalist of the party, for she had become an expert can painter by this time--she was getting fourteen cents for every hundred and ten cans, and she could paint more than two cans every minute.
Chpt 8

capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or someone who is wealthy and benefits from such an economy
There was a tremendous scandal, of course; it was found that the city records had been falsified and other crimes committed, and some of Chicago's big capitalists got into jail--figuratively speaking.
Chpt 23

capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or wealthy people who benefit from such an economy
Mike Scully was very much worried over the opportunity which his last deal gave to them--the stockyards Democrats were furious at the idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, and while they were changing they might possibly conclude that a Socialist firebrand was preferable to a Republican bum.
Chpt 25

capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or someone who is wealthy and benefits from such an economy
And so all over the world two classes were forming, with an unbridged chasm between them--the capitalist class, with its enormous fortunes, and the proletariat, bound into slavery by unseen chains.
Chpt 29
It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.
Chpt 29

capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
Whenever it rained, the rheumatism would get into his joints, and then he would screw up his face and mutter: "Capitalism, my boy, capitalism!"
Chpt 30
Whenever it rained, the rheumatism would get into his joints, and then he would screw up his face and mutter: "Capitalism, my boy, capitalism!"
Chpt 30
Here were all the opportunities of the country, the land, and the buildings upon the land, the railroads, the mines, the factories, and the stores, all in the hands of a few private individuals, called capitalists, for whom the people were obliged to work for wages.
Chpt 30 *

capitalists = people who are wealthy and benefit from an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses
The whole balance of what the people produced went to heap up the fortunes of these capitalists, to heap, and heap again, and yet again--and that in spite of the fact that they, and every one about them, lived in unthinkable luxury!
Chpt 30

capitalists = people who believe in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or wealthy people who benefit from such an economy
It was enough to make a mule laugh, to hear arguments like that; and yet it was no laughing matter, as you found out--for how many millions of such poor deluded wretches there were, whose lives had been so stunted by capitalism that they no longer knew what freedom was!
Chpt 30

capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment
The Lord had used up so much material in the making of his head that there had not been enough to complete his legs; but he got about on the platform, and when he shook his raven whiskers the pillars of capitalism rocked.
Chpt 30
That was the nearest approach to independence a man could make "under capitalism," he explained; he would never marry, for no sane man would allow himself to fall in love until after the revolution.
Chpt 31
The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience--in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.
Chpt 31
"Just what," answered the other, "would be the productive capacity of society if the present resources of science were utilized, we have no means of ascertaining; but we may be sure it would exceed anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the ferocious barbarities of capitalism."
Chpt 31
"When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann--"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want--he is in the very center of the ghastly charnel house of capitalist destructiveness, and he scarcely knows which of a dozen horrors to point out first."
Chpt 31

capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses with voluntary exchange in a competitive environment; or someone who is wealthy and benefits from such an economy
On the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche, the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally, perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific breeding of men and women, and the establishing…
Chpt 31
--To go on to another item--one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population.
Chpt 31

capitalism = an economic system based on private ownership of property and businesses, and on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment

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(1) (capitalism)
an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses

Proponents of capitalism argue that voluntary exchanges tap into people’s local knowledge and natural self-interest, channeling millions of everyday decisions into broader benefits for society. At the same time, most of them also support a role for government in addressing problems that “pure” capitalism handles poorly—such as monopolies, shared costs and benefits like pollution and national defense, and providing a safety net for those who are hit by bad luck.
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capitalism in The Jungle, by Sinclair (Edited)

capitalism
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
(Edited)