Mercantilism and barter are better described as historical economic systems, and in the past the governments and the kings/queens generally kept a closer control of the country, so let's not consider those options.
Now, we have: capitalism, communism, socialism.
Capitalism leaves the capital and the economic decisions in the hands of the private people, not the government. Socialism means a common possession of the means of production, but not by the govrenments, rather by the people, as is often seen as a milder form of communism.
Communism on the other hand is associated with authoritarian governments. Some example were the Soviet Union, and currently, North Korea and Cuba.
Answer:
In hindsight, <u>from the Gilded Age </u><u>monopolists </u><u>perspective they would say that they have pushed too far with manipulation of prices and thus brought negative reaction and counter measures from the general public.</u> In particular, farmers in the Western country demanded that the government set maximum prices on railroads because monopolist had uncontrolled pricing power. Through the Granger movement they achieved passing of some of the ‘Granger Laws’ and set pricing limit on some services.
This concerned other industries as well. For example, the famous <u>Robber baron</u> Vanderbilt was competing with steamboat monopoly that controlled transportation between New York City and Albany. Using populist rhetoric and peoples line to bring down monopolies, he was trying to pave the way for his own business. Meanwhile, <u>the monopolistic Hudson River Steamboat Association end up paying him a great amount of money so that he would stop doing it</u>.
From this perspective, a child would be afraid of the dark if previous experiences in the dark were negative.
