Capitalism is an economic system founded on inherent inequality. In this model, some individuals own resources for production while others must sell their labor to survive. This structure creates and deepens inequality through mechanisms like capital accumulation, which inherently concentrates wealth and polarizes society.
The capitalist class owns the means of production and appropriates a significant portion of the collective wealth produced by society as profit. This leads to social polarization because the wealthy can reinvest their profits into more assets, while those without ownership are left with only their labor for sale. Consequently, capitalism results in both wealth inequality, which is an uneven distribution of assets like land, property, stocks, and financial holdings, and income inequality.
