Hyper-Capitalism

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden, Kids & Family

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hyper-capitalism — also called late-stage capitalism — is what happens when material resources, lifestyle activities, and everything in between becomes both commodified and consumable. In hyper-capitalistic economies, products get invented that no one needs or wants. Celebrities are revered like gods. Inequity is everywhere, and citizens internalize the idea that their worth is measured by some mysterious combination of career success and amassed material goods. Many argue that the United States has entered its hyper-capitalist era, as Americans report that the relentless demands of trying to keep up results in working longer hours, increasing loneliness, and lowered life satisfaction. On today's show: A conversation with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers about the ways in which Americans are experiencing the effects of hyper-capitalism in real time. Here's a preview: [5:00] A laundry list of hyper-capitalism's consequences in 2024 [11:00] Europe doesn't consume way America does. They're not as lonely, either [15:00] Taking a good, hard look at our disordered American beliefs [19:00] Implications associated with celebrity worship [26:00] Pay for what you get? Not in this case! Debunking the privatized healthcare myth [33:00] Musings on nationwide learned helplessness This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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1:00.8	Well, hello there and welcome back.
1:05.4	My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 474 of sustainable minimalists. This is a listener supported show about intentional and eco-friendly
1:16.6	minimalist living. On today's show we are zooming out. We are looking at the world stage so that we may more effectively zoom back in and
1:27.2	analyze our hyper-capitalized culture with perspective. Now to my Americans listening, unless you are well traveled,
1:37.0	unless you frequently jet set to international destinations, it can be easy to find yourself insulated in the
1:45.9	quintessential American bubble. We have been told since birth that America is the
1:51.8	greatest nation on earth and so it's all too easy for us to buy into
1:57.0	the notion that we are the best that we are doing things right and every other country is following our lead.
2:07.0	We Americans, we've been taught another thing.
2:09.6	Our hyper-capitalist culture, emphasis there on the hyper-prefects, our hyper-capitalist
2:16.6	culture has taught us that our value, our happiness even, our value in our happiness they are derived from some mysterious
2:25.9	combination of career accomplishments and amassed material goods. Enter over-consumption, over-working so that we can crush our big
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