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The 2007 writers’ strike deferred that goal, so Lurie pivoted to write three erotic novels which, she reveals, were “critiques of capitalism wrapped in a romance novel.”

With “The Phoenician Scheme,” Anderson is celebrating the art of the spiel, the capitalism that artists are supposed to be against.

The last failed to recapture the mojo of its first season, as the repetition of its stylized carnage turned the series into a victim of the capitalism it bluntly critiqued.

So I think the Puritans would be very upset with the current state of late-stage capitalism.

But such practices didn’t jibe with increasingly modern economies, and colonialists, especially in North America, saw burning as both barbaric and a threat to industrialized capitalism.