What should be true is not necessarily what's true, and the fact of the matter is that--however unjustified--people typicall do make judgments about intelligence, education, and even willingness to work and take care, based on spellings.
Is, "capitolism," to, "capitalism," as, "kempo," is to, "kenpo?"
But all side issues aside, there's an enormous difference--and one that should be pretty obvious--between barter and capitalist exchange. Barter is enacted among people and in small groups, and involves swapping one thing you produced for another thing somebody else produced. Capitalism involves swapping symbols--money--that represent work around. You mostly never see the people, and you never see their work.
That's why capitalism fosters alienation and human separation--and remember, kids, Marx's opposition to capitalism wasn't just out of sheer pique: it was because of what it did, and does, to people, to society, to morality, to life.
And incidentally again, just 'cause it's old, don't mean it's wrong.
