Capitalist Imagination

[Martin Hash]

There’s an intentional attempt, mostly successful, to conflate capitalism with free markets, though a free market can exist without capitalism. Capitalism is built on the concept of imaginary money, where more money is made from money, all of it imaginary, and making money is the ultimate goal. Free markets are centered around productivity, and productive members of society are easily identified because they produce something. Extreme Wealth concentration is not possible in a free market because money is limited to the finite productivity of individuals, but wealth concentration is the goal of capitalism; in fact, it is the inevitable result. Capitalism results in the imaginary supplanting reality.