And who thinks otherwise are just dumb mouth shitters who only had US propaganda for meals pasture all their lives.

Like using other people or their conditions in a social setting to benefit yourself. Think of like how desperate people on the internet are to be seen saying the correct things in front of the correct people.

Or the phenomenon of dunking. When you dunk on somebody on the internet you're extracting a social value from them. It isn't as easy of a thing to do IRL or before the internet age but here we're operating in a marketplace of attention. Capitalism has infiltrated our very social interactions so we act like capitalists even when there's no money involved.