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As privatisation reforms in the National Health Service continued apace, and as the Blair regime raised (and threatened to further raise) the university tuition fees they had first introduced in 1998, there was a strong sense of decline and fall in British culture — especially among younger people — which was nonetheless offset and obscured by a housing-market bubble and a seemingly robust economy which guaranteed a decent standard of living for many older professionals (though not, as we will see, those in the increasingly besieged public sector).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Concern about “subliminal” manipulation always seems like misdirection, given how many attempts at overt manipulation are taking place all the time.
Another Three Things
Rob Horning
New bureaucracy takes the form not of a specific, delimited function performed by particular workers but invades all areas of work, with the result that – as Kafka prophesied – workers become their own auditors, forced to assess their own performance.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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