/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I see it as a basic extension of Marx's notion that capitalism seeks to exploit all possible markets or even create those which are unnecessary. Human capital. Social capital. Intellectual capital. Poo capital. It doesn't matter. If it can make a buck off of it, it will marketize it.

Although I would say that there is no objective definition to what defines what constitutes capital so long as it passes a few basic criteria. Accumulation is a given. You need to stack coins or some other entity. Appreciation of value is also a trait. Whatever you collect and store as capital must increase in value over time, for it to be capital. Ownness: what is capital must be possessed exclusively. Nobody else can have a taste. Finiteness: capital only has meaning insofar as it is scarce. Otherwise everyone has it, which makes it valueless.

Social capital is essentially social status, which arguably reduces to differential distributions of attention in the social network. If people pay more attention to you you have more social capital. Attentional economics is an example of such capitalistic absurdities. As if we really have to go down this rabbit hole to solve our problems!

read bourdieu

Isn't social capital just your network? Aka who you know, who will do you favours, aka nepotism?