Two issues:

1. Most of history isn’t written, and when it has been, it was the ruling class that wrote it.
2. Most of, if not all, the world has been under a ruler of some form for the vast majority of it’s history

Don’t start thinking that Capitalism started with The Wealth of Nations. Greed has always been there, and it has always been rewarded.

You need to put that knob and note into a shadow box and hang it up.

I disapprove of you posting a photo of me on my day off. How dare you!

That looks like self-propeled bacon.