Capitalist Sophism

The use of economic language, market logic, and capitalist frameworks to defend positions that serve elite interests while appearing neutral or inevitable. Capitalist Sophism invokes "market forces," "efficiency," and "incentives" as if they were natural laws, ignoring the power structures, inequalities, and externalities that markets produce. It's sophistry in service of the status quo: using the language of economics to obscure the reality of exploitation.

"Privatizing water is more efficient, they said—ignoring that efficiency meant profit, not access. Capitalist Sophism: market logic as moral argument, economics as ethics. The sophistry lies in treating efficiency as the only value, ignoring justice, equity, and life itself."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 7, 2026

Capcut Syndrome

When a platform turns their widely used free features into paid ones purely for the sake of squeezing money out of the user—eventually making the service barely usable without a paid subscription.

"Why do they keep putting stuff behind paywalls?"

"Capcut syndrome."

by Lynn00221 March 12, 2026

Capitalist Hyperrealism

The fusion of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism (the pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable political and economic system) with Hyperslavery, Late-Stage Capitalism, Objective Hyperrealism, Precarized Consumerism, and Hyperconsumerism into a seamless, inescapable atmosphere of late capitalist life. It's not just the belief that there's no alternative to capitalism—it's the lived experience of a world where capitalism has become so total that it constitutes the entire horizon of the real. Under capitalist hyperrealism, precarity is normal, exploitation is freedom, garbage products are luxury goods, and the whole system is buttressed by an Objective Hyperrealist ideology that treats these conditions as natural facts rather than political choices. The result is a reality so completely colonized by capital that imagining beyond it requires not just political opposition but an almost impossible act of perceptual rebellion.

Example: "He couldn't see his gig economy job as exploitation because Capitalist Hyperrealism had so thoroughly saturated his consciousness—this was just 'how things are,' as natural and unchangeable as gravity."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Capitalist Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about capitalism that dominate mainstream economics, policy, and public discourse—the often-unexamined assumptions that markets are efficient, that growth is good, that privatization improves services, that competition drives innovation, and that capitalism is the only viable economic system. Capitalist orthodoxy includes specific commitments: that free markets allocate resources optimally, that regulation distorts efficiency, that inequality is the natural result of differential contribution, that economic growth is the primary measure of success, and that alternatives to capitalism are either impossible or disastrous. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for thinking about economics, but it can also function as ideology—making capitalist arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring exploitation and harm, and delegitimizing alternatives. Capitalist orthodoxy determines what questions economists ask, what policies are considered reasonable, and who counts as a "serious" economic thinker versus a naive idealist.

Example: "She suggested that maybe growth isn't always good—and was dismissed as economically illiterate by her colleagues. Capitalist orthodoxy doesn't allow questioning of its most fundamental assumptions; they're treated as self-evident rather than contestable."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Capsized Submarine

(noun):
The act of storing a sub sandwich upside down in a refrigerator to prevent gravity from turning the bottom bread into a soggy sponge.

“I’m not eating a mushy hoagie tomorrow, I’m going Capsized Submarine on this Philly cheesesteak.”

by DeepImpactblue_5.0 March 18, 2026

Capital markets

A nameless, faceless, being that can be blamed or cited as an excuse for anything.

I had a pretty good weekend planned that included Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, and lots of working out, but the capital markets conspired to ruin not only my plans but my entire being.

by clermontboy May 19, 2025

Cappie

Derogatory slang for someone who's capitalist, or the opposite of a Commie, derotagory slang for someone who's communist.

Mikhail: That bastard Cappie won't have a single hour of hard labour in his life.

by France Is Terrible May 19, 2025