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Roy Swan

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Jul 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Roy Swan

    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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