This kind of insecurity, which I’ll call “manufactured insecurity,” is quite unlike the existential insecurity that is inherent to human life, as the myth of Cura underscores. Where the latter is an ineradicable feature of our being, the former is a mechanism that facilitates exploitation and profit and is anything but inevitable. Indeed, the insight that capitalism is a kind of insecurity-producing machine—that insecurity is not an unfortunate side effect but a core attribute of the system—is one that these chapters will return to and examine through different lenses.