The rise of widespread air conditioning, made
possible by capitalism, is the most obvious explanation.
Not exact matches
One of the ideas of socialism is that everyone within the society will benefit from
capitalism as much as
possible as long as the
capitalism is controlled somehow
by a centralized planning system.
Indeed, it seems to me that the «theory classes» made
possible by the very success of
capitalism do more to undermine wholesome culture than the temptations of the economic order itself.
Negative freedom alone, according to Hart, made
possible the unbridled greed exhibited
by late modern
capitalism, and led to the «exploitation of material and human resources on an unprecedentedly massive scale.»
By extension,
capitalism is the reward system which drives people to spread the benefits of easier living to as many others as
possible.
The works selected
by Farkas take on and absorb the processes and gestures
by which
capitalism works — to take on
possible alternatives, to locate new counter-aesthetics and in one fell swoop to have them saturated, creases stuffed, marketed and re-introduced back into an inescapable mode of value and consumer - ability.
As law professor Tim Wu points out in his book The Attention Merchants, consumer
capitalism is the most creative force in the contemporary world, able to hijack any personal or collective ideal
by turning it into consumer desire, encouraging us to feel entitled to the best
possible relationships that require low maintenance and offer high rewards.