Attacks on footballer wages vent class resentment at a market effect.
Evidence
Yet the Premiership is often treated as if it were a cause rather than an effect. In the lack of a coherent, general critique of capitalism, complaints about the inflation of players’ wages make no sense. After all, it is not public money being redistributed. Players’ spiralling wages are a consequence of the very market dynamics that, until last year’s bank crisis, were held to be sacrosanct. You can detect a sour anti-working class resentment — shared by self-hating elements of the working class itself — in the attack on football’s “undeserving” rich. But all of this — the player’s high wages, the exorbitant ticket prices — is an effect of football’s total subsumption into post-Fordist capital. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1551
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the ‘capitalist realism’ argument running throughout this volume — wage inflation is defended/attacked without acknowledging it is an effect of the same market dynamics held sacrosanct. — connects to: Resentment of the lower classes stems from the perceived devaluation of one’s own efforts; The English bourgeoisie expropriated popular sport to legitimize its rule — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1254; Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489
Broader Connections
- Resentment of the lower classes stems from the perceived devaluation of one’s own efforts
#expands(0.80) - The English bourgeoisie expropriated popular sport to legitimize its rule
#expands(0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1254 - Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice.
#expands(0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489