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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ capitalist.

Adjective

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hypercapitalist (comparative more hypercapitalist, superlative most hypercapitalist)

  1. Exhibiting or pertaining to hypercapitalism.
    • 2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times[1]:
      What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party. Mr. Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century.
    • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker[2]:
      [Sam] Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley—a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.