If anyone's interesting in reading more along these lines (the weird state we've gotten into where everything in our lives needs to be viewed through an economic lens for some reason, and the damage it causes) -- check out the book "Capitalist Realism" by the late Mark Fisher -- I really enjoyed it!
Why should we recommend yet another example of a postmodernist critical theorist who went crazy and killed either themselves or others?
You didn’t learn after althussar, or deleuze, and now you make the same mistakes. Don’t be surprised if it comes out later that he was a child diddler, much as it has for the previously well respected Foucault.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6763725-capitalist-reali...