Capitalism has been 'good' for Democracy; but, it has 'dehumanized' the democratic spirit.

Capitalism has been 'good' for Democracy, but; it has 'dehumanized' the democratic spirit. As most things, 'anything' that is good for us as 'human beings' can become 'bad', if its excessive. Capitalism has a good, functional,'economic motor'; namely, profits; but, profits do not have to replace the Freedom and Equality of Democracy. Economic activity has 'shifted' from the economic sphere into the political sphere. Of course, that's what gave rise to the so-called 1%. We hold money in higher regard than Freedom and Equality. Today, the goal of most individuals is to be in the Top 1%, or, at least, to drive oneself in that direction. Our democratic value system has been replaced by a desire to have more and more of the same vacuous possession called 'money'. We accumulate 'emptiness' instead of Freedom and Equality. Freedom and Equality applies to each and every human being in the world, i.e. it is a 'real factor' in the human condition. It actually 'affects' the physical nature of the human condition. But, 'money' is a 'fiction', i.e. it only exists because its a 'quantification' we use to 'measure', 'more' or less', in economic activity. It used to be backed by gold, but that has been changed, it is now a pure, arbitrary, quantification, 'founded' by 'absolutely 'nothing'. That wouldn't be so bad, if it did not distract us from the democratic spirit that 'holds' democracy together, into an unadulterated pursuit of an 'empty fiction'; the 'economic motor' of capitalism, namely the 'Holy Dollar'or profits. How sad, human beings have become dehumanized, by the misguided pursuit of 'Fictions'. We eat 'real' food; we 'breathe' real air; why can't we 'think' 'real ideas', viz. about the 'condition of togetherness' that we live in, and the 'spirit of democracy' that holds it together? Why do we pursue economic fictions? Economic success has 'emptied us' of a 'real, genuine', Democratic Life. Its time to re-think Democracy, and re-shuffle our value systems. 'Greed' is not a democratic value.