The Lineage of Capital

Capital flight has nothing to do with factories flying away, like the literal material instruments of production are not flying elsewhere. So then what what they mean essentially is capital in the form of money. And i think there's a lot of lineages for thinking about this. But just to come back to the problem we have with this term, is that it sort of presumes that the foundations of this entire system a rest upon the use and exploitation of capital as private property by private actors for private ends.