hypercapitalism

English

Alternative forms

• hyper-capitalism

Etymology

hyper- +‎ capitalism

Noun

hypercapitalism (uncountable)

1. (capitalism) Extreme capitalism at the expense of traditional values.

   Synonyms: supercapitalism, turbocapitalism

   Coordinate term: late capitalism

   • 2008 March 30, “Letters”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Perhaps Americans will finally choose to stop living in an economic Wild West and at last reject the boom-and-bust cycle of turbocharged hypercapitalism in favor of a more humane, livable society.

   • 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.

   • 2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Under hypercapitalism, the most beautiful things are the surest signs of impending crisis. The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.

   • 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic‎^[4]:

     The collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism at the beginning of the 1990s was very good news, but it had the unfortunate effect of making almost any left critique of America’s new hypercapitalism seem not just quixotic but also kind of corny and quaint.

   • 2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     However, the politics are much different. Silicon Valley’s libertarian, technocratic ideals – themselves a curious mutation of the California counterculture – could extend the darker aspects of hyper-capitalism.