Roy Swan
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The Oldest American Idea About Capitalism (opens the original)
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Near the end of his life, Benjamin Franklin did something unusual for a founding father. He set up a loan fund. Franklin spent his early years in his brother’s print shop, working for someone else’s profit. He knew the difference between earning a wage and owning the thing that pays it, including that the gap is rarely about talent. It is about capital. A worker without a loan sells his labor and gets by. Give that same worker enough to buy tools or a stake in a business, and you change his fami
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