I agree poverty is a big factor, but to what extent is Qatar truly capitalist? What proportion of it&#x27;s businesses, by value, are owned privately by people not members of the ruling family? What proportion of it&#x27;s residents are employed by private businesses? The country&#x27;s economy only has a private sector at all at the discretion and whim of it&#x27;s rulers. It is ever thus. Even North Korea has small private businesses and a black market, but does that make it&#x27;s economic system capitalist?<p>If capitalism is to mean anything, I think it must be that the primary method of gaining wealth is through investing private capital and that there is equal access to opportunities to invest. Otherwise I&#x27;m not sure what it means.