Capitalism

Capitalism
"Capitalism: God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor."
Basic Information
Aliases	Big Boss Cap Cappie Capitalism without adjectives Economic Liberalism Capitalist Mode of Production Market Liberalism Market Economy Property and Commerce (DozenValues) Free Market-Private Property system Economic Individualism Businessism Luxuryism fUnNY mONeY lIBrIGHt (((Them))) Crapitalism Capitalist Pig/Porky Bourgeoise Commercialism Greedism Rule of the lucky Economic Darwinism Economical Accelerationism Smithianism (Somewhat erroneously)
Alignment(s)	RightUnity   Capitalists
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Calvinist Theocracy (Allegedly) Industrialism Market Economy Mercantilism Physiocracy
Influenced	Agrarian Capitalism Authoritarian Capitalism Capitalist Communism Capitalist Transhumanism Conservatism (Factions, most) Eco-Capitalism Economic Globalization Jacksonian Democracy (factions) Libertarianism Monarcho-Capitalism National Capitalism Neomasculinity Objectivism Pink Capitalism Propertarianism Social Capitalism Yellow Socialism Capitalist Realism Metaphysical Capitalism
Notable people	Europe Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Papal States (Disputed) Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italy Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) England Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) England Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Netherlands Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) England John Milton (1608-1674) England John Locke (1632-1704) England Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) England Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) France Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778) France David Hume (1711-1776) Scotland Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scotland Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Germany Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) France Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Ireland James Watt(1736-1819) Scotland Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) UK Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) France Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) UK Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussia Léon Walras (1834-1910) France Carl Menger (1840-1921) Austria Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) England Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) Italy Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914) Austria Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926) Austria Max Weber (1864-1920) Germany Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) Germany Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Austria John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) UK Alexander Rüstow (1885-1963) Germany Friedrich Hayek (1889-1992) Austria-Hungary Walter Eucken (1891-1950) Germany Franz Böhm (1895-1977) Germany Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977) Germany Alfred Müller-Armack (1901-1978) Germany Bertrand de Jouvenel (1907-1981) France Keith Joseph (1918-1994) UK Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) UK Grigory Yavlinsky (1952-) Russia Tony Blair (1953-) UK Boris Johnson (1964-) UK Thomas Piketty (1971-) France Americas Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) USA George Washington (1732-1799) USA Thomas Paine (1737-1809) UK/ USA Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) USA James Madison (1751-1836) Henry George (1839-1897) USA Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) USA Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum) (1905-1982) Russia/ USA Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) USA Milton Friedman (1912-2006) USA John Rawls (1921-2002) USA Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) USA Thomas Sowell (1930-) USA Ron Paul (1935-) USA Robert Nozick (1938-2002) Joe Biden (1942-) USA David D. Friedman (1945-) Robert Reich (1946-) USA Al Gore (1948-) USA Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949-) West Germany / USA Paul Krugman (1953-) USA Barack Obama (1961-) USA Jonathan Haidt (1963-) USA Bryan Caplan (1971-) USA Robert P. Murphy (1976-) USA Steven Kenneth "Destiny" Bonnell II (1988-) USA
Notable examples	Venetian Republic (697-1797) British Empire (1707-1997) USA (1776-) Chile (1973-1990)
Variations
Sub-Ideologies	Laissez-Faire Capitalism Austrian School (modern) Enlightenment Thought Physiocracy Regulated Capitalism Regulationism Keynesian School Neoliberalism Statism Factions Nordic Model Ordo-Liberalism Paternalistic Conservatism Right Social Democracy Social Liberalism Third Way Welfarism
School of Thought	Crypto-Capitalism Capitalist Transhumanism Hayekism Technoliberalism (some) Techno-Capitalism Capitalist Transhumanism Technocracy Libertarian Transhumanism Eco-Capitalism Neoreactionaryism Social Libertarianism (Sometimes) Green Libertarianism (Sometimes)
Character Information
Likes	💵Money Tax breaks Gold Oil Adam Smith Free market Free trade Law abiding trade unions
Dislikes	Unions Worker co-ops Socialists Communism Leftists Corporatism Planned economies Autarky
Song	DR Period - Money Cha-ching song For the Love of Money Work Work Money lodsa money oppurtunities (lets make lots of money) C.R.E.A.M Rap del Dinero Viper - All I Need Is Tha Money Decisions Quarter Pounder Remixed THRESHOLD OF HELL How Bad Can I Be Biggering Here Comes The Money US National Anthem on 7 Credit Card Machines Monty Python - Money Song THE FINE PRINT The Outer Worlds Song Just Buy the Game

"Under any form of economic or political system, those at the top tend to become complacent, if not arrogant. Convincing them of anything is not easy, especially when it is some new way of doing things that is very different from what they are used to. The big advantage of a free market is that you don’t have to convince anybody of anything. You simply compete with them in the marketplace and let that be the test of what works best."

Thomas Sowell

Capitalism, or Economic Liberalism, is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. In a market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by owners of wealth, property, or ability to maneuver capital or production ability in capital and financial markets—whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.

Capitalism is defined by many different ideologies in many different ways. By Liberals and Right-Libertarians it's usually defined as a free enterprise system with private property rights, by Marxists it's usually defined as a system where the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariat and by Left-Wing Market Anarchists it's usually defined as a system of corrupt markets.

Capitalism fundamentally needs 5 institutions to function:

1. Private Property
2. Free Exchange
3. Competition
4. Division of Labor
5. Social Co-operation

Other ingredients necessary for the development of Capitalism are:

1. Contractual freedom.
2. Constitutional (limited) government.
3. Free financial markets and access to capital.
4. Ease of starting and managing a business.
5. A good and efficient law system.

The meaning of capital is also often misunderstood, since it's not only money but everything necessary for the production of consumer goods: Workers, capacitation of the workers, machines, raw materials, the workplace itself, financial capital (The money that finances those capital goods), etc...

Capitalism can fall under any cultural and civic positions, but as an economic system, it's usually regarded as right-wing where there is private ownership of the means of production and it's operation for profit. (although some ideologies that can arguably be considered capitalist can also be considered economically centrist or center-left, such as Social Democracy).

History

The expression "capitalist", which means a proprietor of capital, shows up sooner than the expression "private enterprise" and dates to the mid-seventeenth century. "Private enterprise" is determined from capital, which developed from capitale, a late Latin word based on caput, signifying "head"— which is likewise the cause of "property" and "cows" in the feeling of versatile property (just a lot later to allude just to livestock). Capital emerged in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries to allude to reserves, load of product, total of cash or cash conveying interest.

By 1283, it was utilized in the feeling of the capital resources of an exchanging firm and was regularly traded with different words—riches, cash, reserves, merchandise, resources, property, etc...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term "capitalism" first appeared in English in 1854 in the novel, "The Newcomes" by William Makepeace Thackeray, where he meant "having ownership of capital". Also according to the OED, Carl Adolph Douai, a German American socialist and abolitionist, used the phrase "private capitalism" in 1863.

Variants

Laissez-Faire Capitalism/Unbridled Capitalism

Laissez-faire capitalism is a form of capitalism where the government doesn't intervene in the economy whatsoever. A laissez-faire economy is one based on a free market, without any regulation on trade, business or working conditions. Laissez-faire capitalists also reject welfare, and believe in little (or even no) taxation. Laissez-faire capitalism can be justified either by arguing that such a system is the most efficient due to auto-regulation of the market, or that such a system is based on freedom, and therefore is the only ethical system. Laissez-faire capitalism is usually associated with libertarian ideologies such as Libertarianism, Minarchism, Austrian Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism, but it can also be supported by civically neutral, or even authoritarian ideologies.

Regulated Capitalism

Regulated Capitalism is a system where the government intervenes in the economy in order to maximize efficiency, and/or to protect workers and consumers. All existing capitalist societies follow this form of capitalism, even the ones with most economic freedom. Economic regulations can range from worker protections (such as workplace safety laws, minimum wages, laws that protect unions, etc), to environmental regulations that penalize businesses that harm the environment, to government intervention to help the economy during times of crisis. Some of the most basic (in a modern economic sense) forms of regulation include: a central bank with varying degrees of independence (to control the supply of money to make it easy and cheap to borrow to stimulate growth, but also to manually intervene to reduce inflation) some kind of zoning/licensing laws, (although many people today want more relaxed laws), and protective or revenue-focused tariffs are other examples of generally liked regulations, where the government puts a tax on imported goods, either to try to keep jobs in the country, to raise revenue to fund expenditure, or to protect the local industry. Tariffs have been criticized in the past for being rather corrupt as national large businesses were infamous in the gilded age for bribing and lobbying politicians to raise tariffs on their goods to prevent foreign competitors from challenging them, tariffs have also been criticized for increasing the price of consumer goods to consumers and driving up poverty in the third world as it deprives businesses of cheap, plentiful labour which forces up costs and prices. in Some ideologies support minimal regulation to stimulate economic growth, such as Ordo-Liberalism and Neoliberalism, while some support quite a lot of regulation to protect the consumer, such as Social Democracy. The Keynesian school of economics is a popular economic school that promotes regulated capitalism.

Crypto-Capitalism

Crypto-Capitalism or CrypCap for short, is a culturally neutral, usually libertarian, economic right ideology that advocates for a system were all trades are made by cryptocurrencies, similar to Hayekism, that compete with each other for the best service and more secure one's. CrypCap believes that most efficient way to run an economy is through decentralization of industry and fair competition. It is very laissez-faire-ist but also believes in a minimum state to regulate and prevent monopolies from being formed. CrypCap believes in general that the government is better when only protecting property rights and consumer rights, similar to a Night-Watchman state, although differently from Minarchism it doesn't believe the market can wipe monopolies off by itself.

Crypto-Capitalism main ideal is that markets and industry should be decentralised, Crypto-Capitalism and all other forms of crypcap understand that currencies are another industry and therefore should be decentralised.

Techno-Capitalism

Techno-Capitalism is an economically right, culturally progressive ideology found near the top right of the libertarian right quadrant. He believes the most efficient method and end goal of capitalism would be through mass automation, robotics and emerging technology to allow for extremely cheap but high quality products to be affordable to everyone supplied by competing businesses while the mainstream economy would turn to things that weren't material such as entertainment, art and digital experiences that would be exchanged between individuals as an income.

While sharing similar values to Techno-Socialism, Techno-Capitalism believes automation is best for serving a capitalist market following the Chicago school of economics while sometimes advocating for a Negative Income Tax (NIT) to replace all forms of modern welfare.

Personality and Behavior

Capitalism is obsessed with money and is portrayed as wealthy and owning several businesses. He is extremely anti-taxation (unless that tax is used to help bail out his company), anti-public property, and pro-private ownership of capital. Capitalism is often portrayed with the personality and mannerisms of the character Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants.

How to Draw

Flag of Capitalism

1. Draw a ball,
2. Color the ball yellow,
3. Add an acid green dollar sign in it's middle,
4. Draw in the two eyes,
5. Give the ball a black top hat with a red stripe, and a golden monocle,

You're done.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Yellow	#ffcc00	255, 204, 0
	Dark Green	#008000	0, 128, 0
	Black	#141414	20, 20, 20
	Red	#E10600	225, 6, 0
	Gold	#D1A803	209, 168, 3

Relationships

Business Partners

• Anarcho-Capitalism - He thinks he is real capitalism, but I can work anywhere.
• Authoritarian Capitalism - My authoritarian child.
• Monarcho-Capitalism - He has an eye for luxury.
• Eco-Capitalism - Nuclear Power is cheaper than Fossil fuels! Totally not because I want Energy Subsidies though...
• Pink Capitalism - We gotta meet the woke customer demand.
• Capitalist Transhumanism - Praise be to our R&D department!
• Propertarianism - Right of private property is inalienable!
• Financialism - Capital has a financial sector!
• Liberalism - For freedom of the markets!
• Libertarianism - Helps me on the weed plantations.
• Paleolibertarianism - Conservative but more like me.
• National Libertarianism - Same as above, but more Nationalist.
• Libertarian Conservatism - He like guns as well, and same reasons above the 2, but he is conservative like Paleolibertarianism
• Austrian School - Capitalist Austrian economies? Based and Great! He is like Chicago Libertarianism, but a little better!
• Chicago School - Yeah, more libertarian economies!
• Neoliberalism - Most successful form of me and controller of the Overton Window.
• Yellow Unionism - The only trade unions that I like.
• Third Way - Like Social Democracy but without its issues. Still a bit too regulationist but we can look past that.
• Neoconservatism & Neo-Libertarianism - Make war, buy guns. Also keep up by stopping commies from rising to power!
• Hoppeanism - Helps me with racist customers.
• Enlightenment Thought - You made me possible.
• Classical Liberalism - My other parent who shares my love for free trade. I remember when you cradled me in your arms.
• Conservatism - You worked with me for so long... Ok, I will give you a discount. Sorry if I have to cancel stuff to protect my profits.
• Fiscal Conservatism - My favorite customer, always paying in time.
• Plutocracy - I'm like a form of government.
• Feminism - Thank you for doubling the work force!
• Liberal Feminism - More Female CEOs!
• Libertarian Feminism - You are my favorite daughter.
• Objectivism - Oh baby, nobody else loves me like you!
• Civic Nationalism - Increases my client base ensuring higher profit margins.
• Meritocracy - I aspire to be like you.
• Globalism - Free trade is based.
• Calvinist Theocracy - The best religion!
• Thatcherism - Best British politician.
• Pinochetism - Main helicopter importer and crusher of commie dreams.
• Ilminism - Capitalism is why South Korea is more prosperous than the North!
• American Model - Great example of my economic system.
• Helvetic Model - Also a great example of my model.

Mixed

• Corporatism - I don't like him, but you know, money is money... Also could you like not to say that the banks are controlled by the Jews or something.
• Agorism - Helps me to infiltrate red countries. Doesn't like me for some reason.
• Mercantilism - You're my predecessor, but I wish you were more pro-free trade, though.
• Capitalist Communism - Look son, 50% of the time you're right. The other 50% of the time you’re wrong.
• Regulationism - My little friend who thinks markets need regulations... what? hmm..well Adam Smith thinks you are necessary
• Social Capitalism - Another son of mine but... why do you support this welfare shit thing? Oh lord. Please remove the "social" part of your name, but good job in Germany.
• Social Democracy - He is somewhat capitalistic but he supports this "labor rights" shit. Then again, he might've saved my life in the Interwar period. I also liked how you crushed those commies in Germany.
• Corporatocracy - Congratulations on taking over the world but why lobbying and monopoly?
• Technocracy - If you really detest me that much, why haven't I seen you reject my investment? Oh right, you need that, maybe you should remember that too.
• State Capitalism - I always feel bad having deals with him, but pecunia non olet.
• Dengism - State Capitalism in practice but in red.
• Kleptocracy - I can't believe someone greedier than me exists but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
• Monarchism - I don't like him either with this Monarchy thing, but he is rich.
• Athenian Democracy - Why does one of the only non-capitalists who realizes that I don't support slavery have to mean that in a negative way!? Also slavery is wrong both morally and economically. Ignore the fact that I support sweatshops and wage slavery.
• National Capitalism - Good economics son, but racism and statism are bad for business.
• Paternalistic Conservatism - He is somewhat capitalistic but he supports this "social welfare" shit. Sorry bro, companies have the freedom to do as they please without taxes being thrusted against their throats to pay for the services of others.
• Traditionalism - You should stop focusing so much on your "traditions" and instead start consuming my products. Culture isn't worth anything as long as you can't make a profit off of it.But at least we're both rightist.
• Reactionary Liberalism - A pro-capitalist reactionary? Alright...
• Fascism - Thinks I'm a degenerate or whatever, but did a damn good job at crushing those commies (even though he was created by a former commie, so it's best to be wary). But he nationalized many industries and was second behind the USSR, which is why I am skeptical about him.
• Nazism - Again, goes off about how I'm a degenerate or whatever, but certainly not a bad business partner by any means... One big negative factor in my own opinion of you is that your defeat in World War 2 made Eastern Europe a communist heartland for several decades.
• Guevarism - He wants to kill me, but I do get rich off of selling his face on posters and t-shirts...
• Landian Accelerationism - Capital uses people to create metal body for itself? That's something only a Marxist would compose... You also support me?!
• Avaritionism - Look, I can meet your demand for money and killing, just hop in any PMC or sign an army contract, but you absolutely cannot rob or kill people here, I can't work without civil rights.
• Christian Theocracy - He makes me A LOT of money but try buying a car with "grace" and "virtue".

Slowpowkers

• Socialism - Lazy janitor. Why don't you want to work?! Back in the factory, now! I knew I shouldn't have gone over to his New Year's Party, otherwise we wouldn't have had him.
• Syndicalism & Anarcho-Syndicalism - STOP IT WITH THE DAMNED UNIONS!
• Feudalism - You had your day, now it's our turn.
• Anarcho-Communism - Yeah, nice try.
• State Socialism - You will never solve the ECP.
• Marxism–Leninism - You're nothing but a failure. Yet for some reason you're popular with college kids.
• Stalinism - Your mass starvations were proof that collectivization doesn't work.
• National Bolshevism - Racist commie.
  • - Yes, the left ARE the real racists, cope.
• National Communism -Moderate version of the above that hates free trade and globalization.
• Monarcho-Socialism -Crowned commie
• Conservative Socialism - Stop saying that capitalism destroys culture.
• Religious Socialism - Capitalism is godless? What bullshit, wasn't it communists that persecuted religions?
• Reactionary Socialism - Quit rebranding yourselves as a filthy red!
• National Syndicalism - You're just corporatism but farther left.
• Anarcho-Primitivism - He wants to destroy me in favor of a hunter-gatherer society... what the fuck?
• Leninism - I sold him a rope and now he's trying to hang me with it...
• Post-Leftism - What do you mean you're against work? How else will me and my workers make me money? Gamefication of work is based tho.
• Alter-Globalism-Worse version of globalism.
• Anarcho-Egoism - He doesn't respect property rights... At least he's not a commie-
• Ego-Communism - OH COME ON!!
• Communalism - Wants to steal my private property and redistribute my items.
• Posadism - Psycho who wants to nuke me out of existence.
• Bio-Posadism - We will not shut down the economy because of you!
• Jacobinism - Although you kept private property in check, you're the start of everything I hate.
• African Socialism - And you wonder why Africa is poor.
• Strasserism - I was willing to work with him, but this is too much. Who am I lying? My friend traded even with him
• Marxism - You're just a lazy college student who's never lived in a real communist country. Also, what is dialectical materialism other than a religion made into a political ideology?
  • - Without me this page wouldn’t exist. I popularized the term “capitalism” as a critique of the existing economic order.
  • - The terms capitalism and bourgeoisie existed long before you, you just introduced it as a abusive label.
• Marxist Feminism - You call yourself a feminist, yet you want to steal the rich female CEOs' property. Curious.
• Anarcha-Feminism - Same as above but anarchist.
• Utopian Socialism - You're better than the tankies, but that's not saying much.
• Austromarxism - Stupid Austrian commie! I like and prefer Austrian School not you!
• Pol Potism - Hands off my monocle, stupid commie maniac!
• Illegalism - Stop trying to rob me and squatting my property you Moron!
• Soulism - You can have everything you want in your lucid dreams? Well, good luck with hunger and thirst then - because you still a material being made of flesh, which means that your dreams only satisfy your consciousness, but not your material body. You remind me that foolish sleepy girl from anime named Nemurine, and I think that you repeating her tragic faith. Wait, how you materialized so much food by just listening something in headphones?

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Capitalism
• Wealth
• Laissez-Faire
• Privitization
• Capitalist Mode of Production
• Division of Labour
• Free Trade
• Free Market
• Economic Liberalism
• Entrepreneurship
• Business
• State Capitalism
• Welfare Capitalism
• Private Property
• Wage Labour
• Profit Motive
• Voluntary Exchange
• Bourgeoisie
• Adam Smith

Literature

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
• Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest by Milton Friedman
• Milton Friedman: A Biography by Lanny Ebenstein
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell | Audiobook
• Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell | Audiobook
• The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg
• End The Fed by Ron Paul
• Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property by Ron Paul
• Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods
• Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard J. Maybury
• The Money Mystery: The Hidden Force Affecting Your Career, Business, and Investments by Richard J. Maybury
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
• The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig von Mises
• The Law by Frédéric Bastiat | Audiobook
• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
• The Irrepressible Rothbard by Murray N. Rothbard
• Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P.J. O'Rourke
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• Individualism and Economic Order by F.A. Hayek
• The Fatal Conceit by F.A. Hayek
• El Economista Callejero by Axel Kaiser

Critiques

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Das Kapital Volumes One, Two and Three by Karl Marx | Audiobook

Videos

• Why Capitalism Is A Success (And Why Socialism Isn't) by ShortFatOtaku
• Muh Surplus Labor Value by MentisWave
• Basic Economics VS The Rationalization Hamster by MentisWave
• Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History by CrashCourse
• "Capitalism" is Magic! by The Distributist
• Mumkey's Declassified Capitalism Survival Guide by Mumkey Jones

Gallery

Comics

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  Robot Uprising at ANCAP Inc. by ThePosadist
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  Capitalism finds himself some new workers by AdDry534
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  Untitled by Artist Unknown
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  Untitled by Artist Unknown
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  Untitled by Artist Unknown
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  Rightist Infighting by Artist Unknown
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  Mercantilism by ThePosadist
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  Credit: u/hydratedbirb Source
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  are you winning son (dr.sam)
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  big hat (drSam)
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Portraits and Artwork

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  "Capitalist Compass" By Spade
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  "Windows PCB" By Mebrouk
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  old potrait

Alternative designs

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  Markets, from 8Values