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“Fighting not good. If you must, win.”

This maxim is unequivocally a capitalist’s. Fighting also loosely translates to competition. A capitalist don’t compete, s/he either talks you into an acquisition or crushes you. So when you read the above maxim again, you’d realize it’s the voice of the capitalist to any prospective competition in his space.

A capitalist is averse to sharing, thinking only of self, without regard for the desires of others. When s/he comes to crush, it comes as a friendly foe. S/he believes in doing good, but the doer must not be any other person but self.

S/he is hardly a first mover and spends most of its time with ears on the ground. S/he knows when a new kid is on the bloc and pretends not to notice its existence until it’s threatened. In the absence of any better description, s/he is a shameless “copier”. A capitalist is not in the business of creation, but of scaling. When you create a drop, a capitalist duplicates it in billions drops to make an ocean that consumes both the drop and its creator. Of course, it would have attempted to acquire the drop and its creator as a false alibi.

But hey! Of what use is a dog in a manger when it cannot eat grass? Could it be looking for a needle in a haystack?