The Degenerate State of Capitalism

Wel: The current degenerate state of capitalism is somehow just far more degenerate than the last time we spoke a few years ago in new york. Wel thank you for that incredibly rapid fire trip from feudalism to our present distopic moment. We cannot even be together in person to day in santa fe, as planned, because things have gottin so profoundly distopic. So to start, and you reference the stret and i have the text of it here, you wrote, financial capitalism is decoupled from the capitalist economy,. sky rocketing out of earth's orbit, leaving behind it broken lives and dreams. How does a materialist analysis account for this? Is