Capitalist society is effectively governed by capital, and is therefore driven by the implacable need of capital to grow. Capital must accumulate, bring more and more of the world into its clutches in the form of commodities, resources, human labor, and human desire for what it produces. Since that is its one and only interest, it has no concern for human or any other kind of life or for the conditions that sustain life. Those who work for capital, who manage pieces of capital in the endless process of investment, profit and growth, have sold their souls to capital in a Faustian bargain for wealth and the power that wealth brings. What are the fruits of this bargain, and what it would mean to undo it? People who sell their souls to the devil–i.e capital–become instruments of capital. They reduce themselves to mere calculators of costs and benefits, sworn to manipulate people and resources in whatever ways will increase the return on investment. Regardless of any persona...