# Capitalism **Domain:** Economics / Political Economy **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Capitalism** is an economic system organized around private control of productive assets, investment, exchange, enterprise formation, prices, profit, and the accumulation and redeployment of capital. Its actual forms vary according to law, finance, labor institutions, public infrastructure, market concentration, and the distribution of ownership and bargaining power. ## Agentic-AI Context Agentic AI adds a new productive asset: persistent executable intelligence connected to tools, memory, accounts, and markets. The primary question is not only whether agents raise productivity. It is who owns them, who can direct them, whose context they remember, which services they can access, and whether individuals can carry their accumulated agentic capacity across platforms. [[wiki/Agentic Capitalism|Agentic capitalism]] names this emerging layer. Concentrated agents can deepen the organizational advantage of large firms. Widely distributed [[wiki/Universal Agency|universal agency]] can lower barriers to [[wiki/Small Business Formation|small-business formation]] and allow more people to participate as builders rather than only consumers or displaced workers. ## Relationships [[wiki/Agentic Capitalism|Agentic Capitalism]] · [[wiki/Entrepreneurship|Entrepreneurship]] · [[wiki/Agentic Entrepreneurship|Agentic Entrepreneurship]] · [[wiki/Universal Income|Universal Income]] · [[wiki/Economics|Economics]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Techno-Libertarian on Marxist Capitalism|Techno-Libertarian on Marxist Capitalism]] - [[articles/The Technocrat's Grandson|The Technocrat's Grandson]] - [[wired/Wired About the Age of Agentic Empowerment|Wired About the Age of Agentic Empowerment]] **As of:** 2026-09-28