Peter Hague is definitely exploring the existential crisis of capitalism.

In theory you can earn money and then spend it, thereby directing society towards satisfying your wishes, but the richest people in the world do not earn money to spend it. They earn money to earn even more money. There is no end goal here.

It is an existential crisis, because in a long chain S -> I1 -> ... -> In -> C, if C never happens, then In becomes meaningless, then I(n-1) becomes meaningless all the way to I0 and S. You worked for nothing.

What you did was meaningless and it served no purpose, but it is dominating the system and imposing a meaningless life on everyone else.