The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits
–Milton Friedman

The idea that maximizing shareholder value is eroding the economy and favouring a gross short-sightedness.

From How Shareholders Are Hurting America.

Under capitalism, objects are created, bought, and sold as myriad commodities. But if we were to think about life after capitalism, what might our relationship to things be? Art historian Christina Kiaer discusses the innovations of Russian Constructivist artists in the early years of the Soviet Union and their attempts to reconfigure art, everyday objects, and human desire in a new society.