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Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork among amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches during the 2010s, the book reveals how contemporary capitalism sustains itself by channeling popular discontent into financial and real estate markets. The book focuses on individuals aspiring to become millionaires in ten years. Rather than embodying the rational, emotionally detached investor of economic theory, these asset aspirants formed vibrant communities, articulated sophisticated critiques of capitalism\u2019s structural inequalities, and openly expressed emotional wounds caused by exploitative labor and economic polarization.\r\n \r\n Critical capitalism emerged from popular discontent with both South Korea\u2019s developmental state legacy and neoliberal financialization after the 1997 IMF crisis. Asset seekers positioned their speculative activities as resistance against corporate oppression and foreign capital domination, while simultaneously embedding themselves deeper into financial markets. However, their community building, emotional expression, and anti-capitalist rhetoric paradoxically legitimated their participation in dispossessive forms of capitalism. The book demonstrates how critique, community, and emotion function as the cultural and affective backbone of asset capitalism, showing that contemporary capitalism thrives not despite its critics, but precisely by incorporating their criticisms into new forms of market participation and wealth accumulation.\r\n \r\n Bohyeong Kim is an assistant professor of communication studies and Asian studies at Vanderbilt University. 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