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Chapter 4
Economic Terms
It will be helpful at this point for certain economic terms to be defined
to assist the reader in understanding the Conspiratorial View of History.
Two of these terms are:
Consumption Good: goods acquired for consumption purposes
(food, drink, etc.)
Capital Good: goods utilized for producing consumption goods
The distinction between these two economic terms can be illustrated by
the use of a simple example, such as a primitive tribesman living in a remote
jungle. His diet consists of the rabbit (a Consumption Good) which first
must be caught before it can be consumed. The tribesman quickly learns that
the rabbit is exceptionally quick and that catching it for a daily meal is rather
difficult. But, by using his intelligence, the tribesman fashions a crude blow-
gun to assist him in acquiring the Consumption Good. The moment that
the tribesman builds the blow-gun, he becomes a Capitalist, because the
blow-gun is a Capital Good: it is created to assist the tribesman in acquiring
Consumption Goods.
Therefore, it is possible now to define Capitalism as:
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