Nate,

My simple suggestion is that you read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell or for a fuller understanding of economics: Human Action by Ludwig von Mises. Every worker is a capitalist—skilled or unskilled. According to Mises, “capitalism is an economic system defined by a particular set of institutions, which include private property in the means of production (i.e. land, labor, and capital) and freedom of contract under the rule of law.”