This is what is happening to all of us. The process of wealth creation needs both fodder and energy to keep the juggernaut in motion. People can be made fodder by addicting them to consumption. Once addicted, they will work to provide the energy for the process. All this propels us to act in a humane way with a deep sense of responsibility for our actions and of stewardship toward the needs and rights of others.
Spirituality is the enemy of the capital-centered economy.
Where materialism has advanced, spirituality has declined. And where spirituality is high the capital-centered economy has had difficulty gaining a foothold. Materialism becomes the living culture, money-making the religion, money the god, banks the temples, and economists the oracles. Any God before this god, any Religion before this religion, any Culture before this culture, and any Spirit before this spirit is the enemy. Spirituality is anathema to materialism.