Umni ljudi, pocevši od Marxa, su ovo predvidjeli, očekivani rezultat tržišnog natjecanja: "In disposing of a man’s labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of moral entity "man" attached to that tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime, and starvation". (Polanyi-The Great Transformation, 1944)