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What is capital?
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When I was younger, I believed that capital was just a pile of money stored in a vault. Today, I know that Marx’s description is much more complex than that. I tried reading the first volume of Capital, but I gave up because I found the book quite difficult to understand. I don’t have any background in economic studies, but I think it’s important for me to at least understand what capital means, because I’ve been in discussions where I was asked this, and I didn’t know how to respond.
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