Michael Novak once said, "Capitalism must be infused with that humble gift of love called caritas." While this is a very moving and true concept, this is not the reality we live in. Our modern free enterprise, which derived its structure from the eighteenth-century Catholic Church, is steeped in many things, and love is definitely not one of them. However, capitalism is essential to continue progressing towards a modern future; at some point, capitalism lost its naivety. What we face, however, is a conglomerate dictatorship that uses material possession as a metaphorical carrot dangled in front of the “working class” citizen. Our homogeneous feeling about work ethic is necessary to obtain a job and/or career in modern society. We call it “work ethic”, industrialists call it “human capital”. Our economic sectors profit from efficient workers. The front line of every workforce is the face of a company. Companies don't want someone who doesn't embody the image they choose to portray to the public. For example, if you walk into Wells Fargo, they have a professional greeter at the door, standing next to cookies and coffee ready to direct the customer, with a smile, to the correct representative to conduct financial matters. Meanwhile, this Wells Fargo greeter may abuse his wife or children when he returns home. As long as he wears the face and clothes of the company, he has a job. The merit of someone's actions, like personal character, is no longer the fact of knowing someone. The majority of our population is striving to become part of the aristocratic minority. A person is now defined by material possession, by... middle of paper ......with the tough economic times people are fleeing to religion with the optimistic expectation of finding the answers. What they don't know is that they are paying for their salvation in cash. Because capitalism is critical to continued progress, we have fallen under a system of financial tyranny. With companies exercising their right to “rational cost accounting” by closing departments and redistributing those finances to a more worthy corporate faction, but forgetting the employees and their families who have dedicated their time and exhausting efforts to push the their companies to the financial position they have achieved. They thank them with redundancy pay, regardless of seniority, as well as the quality of the work produced. Where is Caritas? In the capitalist world there is no love for the consumer or the worker, but only love for financial gain .