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I know you think you're up in the rarefied air now, but it's not complicated. You think that capitalism holds only one value, profit (or money), and therefore hollows out and replaces other values (instead of providing people the freedom to pursue their values and sometimes make an economic return on that pursuit). Because capitalism, you argue, only truly cares about money, it doesn't put a proper value on other values like the family and a stable community structure. (It's not supposed to, but you think it should.) Thus, capitalism "consumes" the family, as you said, as well as the community. You might say it commodifies organic human relations and thus devalues them, stripping them of their humanity (which you're locating in this talk in the long continuity of mankind with a duty-oriented natalism). So capitalism engages by design, not necessarily maliciously but structurally, in an expansionist desublimation of the human needs lurking beneath the market it constructs, replacing real human needs (like Volkisch continuity of kin) with false needs packaged by capitalist enterprises and sold to sheeple with false consciousness who don't understand that participation in this economic system is cutting them off the roots of who they are and thus not just their humanity but also the economic structure they need to thrive. Of course, just like you said at the beginning of your talk, this is derived from the Marxist critique of capitalism and repurposed to your values set instead of his. It's also the critical theory critique, which you have articulated elsewhere is "right." As I said before, take a vacation. You're spiraling.