Definition of Capital (money)

The term capital is used to refer to money or monetary heritage that you may have a person, institution or body. Capital is the fundamental element in the socio-economic system known as capitalism and from which they bind not only all the economic if not also social links links. According to this system, the capital is what start-up of different economic activities that have changed from the commercial sector through the industrial up today to the financial sector. These economic activities and the collection of capital is according to this system the parameter of success and social success that allows carry out a life of comfort, luxury and so-called tranquility that settles around the material to the spiritual.
Understood as material capital is currently the most precious good a person can have since it is understood as the element which allows one to lead a dignified life and comfortable. The capital is nothing more than money that he receives in return for some kind of economic activity, professionally or not. This money receiving is proportional to the effort, training, or experience that person has and that establishing hierarchies of wages or pay.
The capital is that the person can consume property of any kind, and also cultural and non-material assets such as travel and access to different shows, exhibitions, etc. The capital is in short, which organizes social life today and has been so since the 14th century, when feudal system began to go into decline.
Although defenders of the capitalist system and the capital as a central element of the claim that people can achieve success with their own efforts and experience from this model, the reality shows that the capitalist system is a system which is based on the formation of hierarchies and inequalities that the person immersed in structures much more powerful than itself cannot address.