Define capitalism and what are the origins of capitalism

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Define "capitalism" and identify its effects on American (and other) cultures. What are the origins of capitalism?

For example, how does captitalism figure into Winner's essay?

Winner says, %u201CIt is clear that in decades to come a great many things like telephone answer machines and automatic bank tellers will become, in effect, members of our society.%u201D More recent technologies that could be included in Winner%u2019s list include the smart phone, online banking, and online shopping. Winner suggests that we surrogate our responsibility to these technologies.

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