hypercapitalist
Radical free-marketeer
Hypercapitalist describes an extreme commitment to free-market capitalism—minimal regulation, maximum privatization, profit as the primary measure of value.
The term is usually critical, suggesting capitalism taken to excess: The hypercapitalist approach treats healthcare like any other commodity.
As a noun, a hypercapitalist is someone who holds such views or embodies aggressive profit-seeking.
One seller, no substitutes
- conglomerateCorporation spanning many industries
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- rent-seekingGaining through system manipulation
- financializationCapital sector's economic dominance
Pro-privatization economic stance
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
supply-side · trickle-down · monetarism · austerity · anti-regulation · Reaganomics · Thatcherism · libertarian
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- grindsetMindset glorifying nonstop work
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- hypercompetitionRapidly shifting market battles
individualism · materialism · luxury · excess · corporatization · monetization · disruption
Member of small ruling class
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
robber-baron · industrialist · financier · mogul · powerbroker · monopolist · tech-bro · one-percenter
Exploiting scarcity for gain
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- offshoringMoving work overseas
- cronyismFavoring friends in appointments
monopoly
One seller, no substitutes
- conglomerateCorporation spanning many industries
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- rent-seekingGaining through system manipulation
financialization · inequality · plutocracy · oligarchy · inheritance
neoliberal
Pro-privatization economic stance
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
privatization · supply-side · trickle-down · monetarism · austerity · anti-regulation · Reaganomics · Thatcherism · libertarian · objectivism
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- grindsetMindset glorifying nonstop work
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
hypercompetition · individualism · materialism · luxury · excess · corporatization · monetization · disruption
oligarch
Member of small ruling class
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
magnate · robber-baron · industrialist · financier · mogul · powerbroker · monopolist · tech-bro · one-percenter · kleptocrat
profiteering
Exploiting scarcity for gain
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- offshoringMoving work overseas
- cronyismFavoring friends in appointments
hypercapitalistcommunist
Collectivist political adherent
socialist · Marxist · collectivist · anarcho-communist · Maoist
hypercapitalistanti-capitalist
Opposed to free-market economics
statist · interventionist · anti-consumerist · degrowth · post-capitalist