Due to his being prominently featured in economics lessons by dirty capitalists, we can reasonably assume that Robinson Crusoe was the ur-capitalist, the first capitalist, the uncaused cause of capitalists

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that's not capitalism you might say. Fine. Let me scale it up

Because of how he's decided to describe things, I'd go the other direction.

Start with a capitalism and kill all but one guy, call him Robinson Carusoe. If the logic of capitalism subsumes all other logics, then how can Robinson's activities cease being capitalistic. He's still operating under a logic and capitalism ate all the other logics already.

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Capitalism Book Club #1: INTRODUCTION, and the Trouble of Defining "Capitalism"

> that's not capitalism you might say. Fine. Let me scale it up

Because of how he's decided to describe things, I'd go the other direction. 

Start with a capitalism and kill all but one guy, call him Robinson Carusoe. If the logic of capitalism subsumes all other logics, then how can Robinson's activities cease being capitalistic. He's still operating under a logic and capitalism ate all the other logics already.