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You must have never lived near an Amish community. Pretty much every large Amish community makes a good bit of money off of tourism. Most of them will have a town centered around selling handmade quilts, baked goods, and handmade furniture to out of town visitors.
A lot of them also will have fairly large construction companies that can compete with other local businesses because they don't really pay for labour, that's why they have so many kids in the first place. In the less strict communities that allow the use of tractor and combine machines they will also do a good bit of business via agriculture.
I think it would be fair to say they aren't much into conspicuous consumption tho.
No, but they do still engage in consumerism. The very strict communities are a minority, most of the Amish people I knew had very large and quite plain houses. However most of them also had very extravagant barns with power where they kept all their modern amenities.
If they don't pay for labor it's not capitalism.
How so? They still own the means of production and profit from the production done by workers.
Are you also claiming that southern plantation owners were not engaging in capitalism because they did not pay slaves?
By Marxist definition - yes, exploiting slave labor is not capitalism, it is some in-between system between feudalism and capitalism. Capitalism is characterized by private ownership on means of production + exploitation of wage labor. Marxists also usually acknowledge that capitalism is a better system compared to slave-based societies which came before it.
Eh, that's highly debated. There are arguments that it's a form of proto capitalism, a form of primitive accumulation, or just a higher level of exploitation. After all all labour under capitalism is fraught with levels of coercion. I've also seen it proposed that slaves are considered a part of the means of production themselves as they are viewed and treated as commodities by their owners.