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Beat Low Self-Esteem With CBT
Stephen Palmer and Christine Wilding
Having a large proportion of the population who wish to work, but cannot, appears to be peculiar to what Marx liked to call “the capitalist mode of production.” But it appears to be, like public debt, a structural feature of the system which must nonetheless be treated as if it were a problem to be solved.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
In sum: there hasn’t been a legitimacy crisis even at the nadir of the economic meltdown in advanced liberal democracies because the legitimacy deal between citizens and public authority has come to exclude issues of social safety. At the same time, the larger legitimation matrix (regarding the distribution of life-chances) has altered: issues of social justice have been redefined in terms of protection of cultural lifestyles within national borders. Public authority remains free to cause social harm, for which it does not assume responsibility because the very publics who are suffering the effects of economic policy have absolved it from responsibility for the social consequences of that policy. This deficiency of responsibility cannot be remedied easily with the tools of representative, participatory, or deliberative democracy, and even less so with those of the fragmented resistance, devolution, and poststructuralist ontologies of social empowerment.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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