Hypercapitalism

Quick meaning: Hypercapitalism is a noun meaning (capitalism) Extreme capitalism at the expense of traditional values.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• hyper-capitalism

Synonyms for hypercapitalism

Depending on context, synonyms include supercapitalism, turbocapitalism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include turbocapitalism, turbo-capitalism, supercapitalism, crapitalism, countercapitalism, superindividualism.

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