hypercapitalist

comparative more hypercapitalist · superlative most hypercapitalist

1. Exhibiting or pertaining to hypercapitalism.

   [Sam] Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley—a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.

   2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker

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   What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party. Mr. Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century.

   2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times

   Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies.

   2025 April 13, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, “The rise of end times fascism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN