<human>:  When the author says that the end of capitalism is a good thing, what does he mean?
<bot>: Well, he’s not really talking about capitalism. He’s talking about consumerism. Consumerism is a system of production and consumption that is based on the idea that we should buy things that we don’t need in order to make ourselves happy. Consumerism has been around for a long time, but it has gotten worse and worse over the past century.