RHF wrote:


'Special Dave' so there was 'no' Flourishing Free
& Open Economy in the American Colonies before
the War of Independence ? During the War and
Continuing after the War to this present day . . .

Capitalism is a nasty byproduct of the Industrial Revolution. I'm not
referring to starting a business. I'm talking about "business"
controlling everything else. Modern capitalism is a product of activist
judges in the late 19th century. It is a perversion of any noble idea of
hard work paying off.