The Problem With Capitalism Isn't the Rich, but the Fixation on Wealth

In The trouble with capitalism, Edward Feser argues that the moral failings of today’s capitalism is caused by fixation on wealth. For example, we prepare young people for a career so they can acquire wealth, we define “being successful” as having wealth, and m the American dream is the right to pursue wealth for oneself.

See also:

• Universal income is capitalism 2.0
• How people get rich and income inequality

Links to this note

• Capitalism Is Dead (Literature Notes)

  The essay Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance, describes how advancements in technology killed what we used to call capitalism and replaced it, unwittingly, with a form of feudalism.