I don't think capitalists are a separate category in and of themselves - they invariably belong in one camp or the other.
Elon Musk is a scientist. Andy Warhol is an artist. Both are known for savvy and shrewd capitalistic exploitation of their talents.
A capitalist who is neither scientist nor artist is not much of a capitalist at all, for he/she has nothing upon which to capitalize. All business, at the end of the day, is the exploitation of an art or a science to fulfill a need.
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I don't think capitalists are a separate category in and of themselves - they invariably belong in one camp or the other.
Elon Musk is a scientist. Andy Warhol is an artist. Both are known for savvy and shrewd capitalistic exploitation of their talents.
A capitalist who is neither scientist nor artist is not much of a capitalist at all, for he/she has nothing upon which to capitalize. All business, at the end of the day, is the exploitation of an art or a science to fulfill a need.
Mitch McConnell. Michael Bloomberg. The Koch brothers. Vladimir Putin. The NSA.
There are many, many political actors which shape Western culture that this essay does not account for.