Archived <a href="https://archive.ph/t0dkU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.ph/t0dkU</a><p>It's how the world works if "the world" is entirely driven by economics, i.e. "the market" and the case can be made that "the market" has philosophically become our God.<p>David Loy writes in "A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack"<p>The final chapter, The Religion of the Market, gathers together many earlier threads in arguing that the predominant religion of the modern world, in fact the most successful religion of all time—making more converts more quickly than any other belief system or value system in history—is our present economic system. From a religious perspective, the global victory of market capitalism is not inevitable but only one historically conditioned way of organizing (or reorganizing) the material world; it also implies a worldview, with an ontology and ethics, in competition with other understandings of what the world is and how we should live in it. ...<p>This is freely available from the author's site in the Introduction to his book,<p><a href="https://www.davidloy.org/writing.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.davidloy.org/writing.html</a><p>Alternatively, the graphic by Miguel Lewis<p><a href="http://emilysquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/capitalism-religion-bank-church-bankers-priest-wealth-heaven-greed-poverty-hell-rich-people-saints-poor-sinners-commodities-blessing-money-god-sad-mistake-life-intelligent-Miguel-D-Lewis.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://emilysquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/capitalis...</a>