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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5350431" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>True, capitalists invest their money in their own business or in other businesses they believe will be successful.  They don't just give it away though.  They expect a return on their investment.  Stocks happen when a business incorporates.  They can sell those shares to others who believe over time those shares will be worth more.  Was this a thing in the Soviet Union?  Cuba?  Without private investment what you have is money being spent by central planners.  That's communism.  They aren't expecting a return on their spending.  Just the state deciding how best to allocate funds.</p></blockquote><p></p>