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Yeah. That and slavery. And vast, previously unexploited amounts of resources. But it is a good point. When you think about the early days of capitalism, you see growth and prosperity. When I think about those early days, I think about slavery, hellish factories burning through child labor... Pretty much people with monocles and top hats climbing to the top on ladders made out of human misery and broken existences. It's kind of hard to really find a consensus given these slightly different perceptions of what "pure capitalism" means.In fact, the relative freedom enjoyed by the early United States is exactly what brought them all their prosperity.