1. A legal system supporting widespread individual rights and liberties to own, buy, and sell private property 2. Widespread commodity exchange and markets involving money 3. Widespread private ownership of the means of production by firms producing goods or services for sale in the pursuit of profit 4. Much of production organized separately and apart from the home and family 5. Widespread wage labor and employment contracts 6. A developed financial system with banking institutions, the widespread use of credit with property as collateral, and the selling of debt 7. Caste system that excludes certain groups from owning property and participating. 8. Artificial scarcity (enclosure) which drives the need for jobs and consumption.