Is there a book (preferably a story more than information) about how capitalism and being employed slowly deteriorates one's life and makes them go insane.
Like it links all the ways in which capitalism glides its way into small parts of one's life and messes with it. And I mean every little aspect in a person's life (career, finance, mental health, family, friends, relationship, creativity, physical health, emotional health, ect ect) and it all ties back to capitalism.
And then it ends with the main character going fully insane because everything keeps falling apart because of how the system works and is built.
Thank you.
by Shot_Army8540
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I haven’t actually read the book but sounds like Fight Club.
Fiction: your request is so highly specific, these aren’t 100% perfect fits but I hope they fit the spirit of what you are asking.
* Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
* The Vegetarian by Han Kang
* The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr., a classic novella
* The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton
* Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
* Color of a Mirror by Daniel Adams-Dufresne
* Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
* Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Highly relevant to your suggestion though they’re nonfiction:
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
*Washington bullets* by Vijay Prashad
*What is antiracism and why it means anticapitalism* by Arun Kundnani
*Capitalism* by Arundhati Roy