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> The only thing that can create capital is producing more than you consume and saving the difference

Here are a few ways to create capital without producing anything:

1) Buy wholesale, sell retail

2) Buy in area A, sell for more in area B.

3) Buy all of product X, create a monopoly, sell at whatever price you want

4) Buy product X, hold until price goes up (or manipulate the price), sell

5) Steal

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Stealing doesn't create capital. It moves it. Your points 3 and 4 also indicate you don't seem to understand the difference between creating capital and moving it.

As for buying and selling stuff for a profit, you may not be producing stuff with your own hands, but you are enabling more production to occur.

By that "logic" the only way to produce capital is to print money. Everything else is moving it.

Or to borrow it from a bank. See "The Mystery of Banking".

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