“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope... But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody”, said the US political operator James Carville. Under capitalism, capitalists as well as workers are dominated by “the markets”, an entity constructed by humans but which then dominates us. Falling unemployment, for example, is regularly reported as “bad news for markets”.