capitalist
Free enterprise advocate
A capitalist is someone who owns capital—wealth used to generate more wealth through investment or business ownership.
The term describes both individual investors and advocates of capitalism as an economic system.
As an adjective, capitalist describes economies or policies favoring private ownership and free markets: capitalist countries, capitalist ideology.
Critics use it pejoratively: capitalist exploitation, late-stage capitalism.
Wealthy business leader
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- baronLow-ranking peer
- oligarchMember of small ruling class
- industrialistMajor manufacturing business owner
plutocrat · billionaire · robber-baron · Rockefeller · Carnegie · Bezos · titan · kingpin
Unregulated private exchange
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- neoliberalPro-privatization economic stance
competition · commodification · commercialization · consumerism · globalization · trade · exchange · boom
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- assetsOwned items of value
opulence · accumulation · inheritance · estate · property · luxury · privilege · class
Legally separate business entity
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- entrepreneurOne who starts businesses
- startupNew business enterprise
- ventureRisky new undertaking
firm · conglomerate · multinational · franchise · monopoly · oligopoly · merger · acquisition
Selfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- alienationState of being isolated
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
proletariat · bourgeoisie · Marx · socialism · neocolonialism · corporatism · predatory · extractive
magnate
Wealthy business leader
industrialist · plutocrat · billionaire · robber-baron · Rockefeller · Carnegie · Bezos · titan · kingpin · powerbroker
free-market
Unregulated private exchange
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
neoliberal · competition · commodification · commercialization · consumerism · globalization · trade · exchange · boom · bust
affluence
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- fortuneWealth or destiny
assets · opulence · accumulation · inheritance · estate · property · luxury · privilege · class · inequality
corporation
Legally separate business entity
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- entrepreneurOne who starts businesses
- startupNew business enterprise
venture · firm · conglomerate · multinational · franchise · monopoly · oligopoly · merger · acquisition · subsidiary
exploitation
Selfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- alienationState of being isolated
commodification · proletariat · bourgeoisie · Marx · socialism · neocolonialism · corporatism · predatory · extractive · sweatshop
portfolio
Collected works or assets
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
equity · bonds · speculation · brokerage · arbitrage · stake · shares · IPO · trading · returns
- conservatismconservative, traditionalism, fiscal conservative, small government, free enterprise
- political labelsliberal, conservative, leftist, rightist, moderate
- business mogulstycoon, mogul, magnate, billionaire, titan
- business peopleCEO, executive, entrepreneur, investor, tycoon
- Business TycoonsAndrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Businesspeopleentrepreneur, executive, CEO, businesswoman, founder
capitalistsocialist
Proponent of collective ownership
communist · Marxist · anticapitalist · collectivist · anti-capitalist
capitalistproletarian
Wage laborer, no capital
worker · laborer · wage earner · working class · proletariat
- venture capitalistsStartup equity investors
- global capitalismInternational private ownership system
- crony capitalismEconomy favoring the connected
- vulture capitalistInvestor exploiting failing businesses
- capitalist societyEconomy built on private ownership
- late capitalismMature market-dominated era
capitalism, capitalize, capitalization, capitalists, capitalistic, anticapitalism, anticapitalist, venture capitalist, state capitalism