We'll talk about everything and anything but the elephant in the room, the one thing that makes this society mean: Capitalism. The language of capitalism is the

We'll talk about everything and anything but the elephant in the room, the one thing that makes this society mean: Capitalism. The language of capitalism is the language of competition, of winning and losing, of climbing ladders, of hierarchy, of beating others. Your neighbor, your coworkers, are all competitors. It sets entire groups against each other, the better to divide and rule us. It's hard to see any other outcome but meanness. It's no wonder we are in the midst of a mental-health crisis. How ironic then that the name of the system that is so dominant and yet so devoid of morality does not appear once in the article; whereas "morality" shows up at least a dozen times.