The belief that capitalist economics doesn't just describe markets but constitutes reality—that everything can and should be understood in economic terms, that market logic applies to all domains, that value is what the market says it is. Capitalist Hyperrealism reduces love to transaction, art to investment, life to human capital. It sees the world through the lens of profit and calls that vision reality. It produces a world perfectly optimized for extraction and utterly impoverished in everything else. Capitalist Hyperrealism is the philosophy of those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Example: "He evaluated everything by market logic: relationships as exchanges, skills as assets, time as investment. Capitalist Hyperrealism had made him economically rational and humanly bankrupt. When she spoke of love, he calculated costs and benefits. She left; he couldn't understand why the transaction failed. He had perfect models of everything and experience of nothing."
by Dumu The Void March 7, 2026
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