“Capitalism gave the world what it needed”, Ludwig von Mises writes sturdily in his Human Action...but it turned the world inside out. Personal loyalties gave way to financial relationships. The wealthy man ceased to be magistrate and patron; he ceased to be neighbor to the poor man; he became a mass-man, very often, with no purpose in life but aggrandizement...the poor man ceased to feel that he had a decent place in the community;he became a social atom, starved for most emotions except envy and ennui. —Russel Kirk