Michael Tomasello's book "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" argues that humans' unique cognitive abilities stem from our capacity for shared intentionality - the ability to participate in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions. This enables cultural learning and the creation of artifacts, practices, and institutions that... See more
It's just different flavors of how human values, such as dignity and decency, lose out once they are pulled down to the arena of the market—Marx's crippled monstrosity.