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Still recently, I had never, ever heard the term capitalism culture.

It just, I've heard of culture and I've heard of capitalism and I think of capitalism as

the economic system that is pervasive in our lives and controls much of what we do and

how we think.

But it just hadn't quite been crystallized the way it was when I heard the term capitalism

culture.

And unspricingly, there's actually a Wikipedia article for capitalism culture.

So here's the quick description.

Capitalist culture promotes the accumulation of capital and the sale of commodities, where

individuals are primarily defined by their relationship to business and the market.

The culture is composed of people who, behaving according to a set of learned rules, act

as they must act in order to survive in capitalist societies.

Anthropologists like Richard Robbins point out that there is nothing natural about this

behavior.

People are not naturally dispossessed to accumulate wealth and driven by wage labor.

And so I have a few examples that I want to go through today that I think one after

the other will help solidify this concept in people's minds, the way it came together

for me.

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