'In different ways, political philosophers, economists and advertising executives have pointed out how our economic system capitalizes on the insecurities it produces, which it then prods and perpetuates, making us all insecure by design. Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequality-insecurity-economic-wealth.html