In the industrial age, capitalists who commanded the wealth to buy machinery and hire workers, or who owned critical resources like coal and oil, replaced landowners as the dominant figures in the economy.
到了工業時代，有錢買大型機器設備和雇用大量勞工、或是擁有煤礦、油田等重要生產資源的資本家，取代地主成為工業經濟的掌權者。