It is somewhat concerning to us that people seemed, and still seem, to be lining up to both defend and attack “capitalism,” when the object of discussion could hardly be further from any worthwhile meaning of the word but is rather better described as: To boost aimless consumption, primarily with uncollateralized debt, by destroying the price signa

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anti-human economies tend to make for bad living on the individual scale. The question is whether, if important causality occurs on the macro level, you have any capability or responsibility for dealing with it at the micro.

There is a strong argument that neoliberal economics and growth-based capitalism are, at their core, disimagination machines. As the scholar Richard Sennett puts it, ‘Modern capitalism works by colonising people’s imagination of what is possible.’56 Thomas Piketty has shown how the creation of inequality is fundamental to capitalism’s model, built

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