In the last five hundred years, virtually all traditional patterns of life and livelihood have been disrupted and reconstructed. The world and world’s peoples have been shaken up and remade.

Samuel Bowles

Capitalism’s prioritization of profit and accumulation through competition over stability and social well-being undermines security, harms the natural environment, divides familial networks, and destabilizes income. Long working hours and the ever-changing job market strain relationships within families, making parents increasingly more reliant on outsourcing childcare. Constant technological advances reshape the job market, shifting economic risk from corporations onto individuals. Reliance on fossil fuels for production takes a significant toll on the environment. All these drawbacks of the never-ending technological revolution exemplify the inability to sustain a capitalist system and the dissatisfaction of all individuals within this society. Capitalism is disruptive not only during economic failures but also because its normal functioning succeeds, though destabilizing families, ecosystems, and lives while wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.