Definition of 'Capital'
1. Financial assets or the financial value of assets, such as cash.
2. The factories, machinery and equipment owned by a business.
Capital Definition | Investopedia
Capital is that part of an economy which decides how resources are harvested, what gets produced, how it's distributed, and who gets how much of the resulting wealth pie.
Capital is the few people who control most of the resources making decisions.
Capital is beginning to face two choices in the internet age: Pay additional taxes to a government so that food stamps can be distributed to their underpaid employees, or pay a living wage. Which I would argue is a wage sufficient to get the percentage of adults in America on food stamps down to a more reasonable <10%.
My argument: Capital is greedy, irresponsible, short-sighted and living proof that survival of the most fit is how we got here, successfully hijacking the American economy using Trickle-down theory their crowning achievement. Capital horded the big tax cuts they got instead of investing their new found capital in, among other things, Americas human resources and their communities.
The free market can NOT be relied upon to invest sufficiently in the greater community, so 'government' is necessary.
Please note - IMHO, the complicated system of governance in the USA, circa the first two decades of the 21st Century is a piss-poor example of how a government should function, and is another subject for another discussion. I'm arguing in favor of the concept of government, in spite of the embarrassment my own brings to the world stage as of the date stamp on this post.