4. We’re free to dismantle capitalism The one factor that most discourages people to experience themselves as free is money. Most of us will shut down a range of possible options (moving abroad, trying out a new career, leaving a partner) by saying, ‘that’s if I didn’t have to worry about money.’ This passivity in the face of money enraged Sartre at a political level. He thought of capitalism as a giant machine designed to create a sense of necessity that doesn’t in fact exist in reality: it makes us tell ourselves we have to work a certain number of hours, buy a particular product or service,
