"Capitalism and the Death Drive" by Byung-Chul Han

Is our economic and social system just an attempt to erase the fear of death? Buying stuff as bail out, pair of new shoes as a taste of immortality.
Tell us how does it make you feel!

[@-EndlessHorizon]

What a great exert his comments on neo liberalism and the entrepreneur is really hitting the nail on the head.

[@taryngesmundo6928]

Yes, his comment on the entrepreneur is really illuminating and paradigm shifting!

[@selwynr]

Surely a "deadly impending catastrophe"?

[@michaela8194]

The inevitable incompatibility of an infinite growth economic model on a finite planet. This is what I assume means.

[@Knaeben]

Since it does not acknowledge death, it sees resources and growth as infinite. Therefore, the system will blindly consume resources until it depletes, pollutes and otherwise destroys the very substructure that supports it (meaning the planet).