Capital privatizes stress as illness then profits from treating it

Evidence

The privatisation of stress is a perfect capture system, elegant in its brutal efficiency. Capital makes the worker ill, and then multinational pharmaceutical companies sell them drugs to make them better. The social and political causation of distress is neatly sidestepped at the same time as discontent is individualised and interiorised. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1500

Categorization

• XREF: The capture-system logic echoes the Frankfurt School critique of how the culture industry returns subjects to resigned drudgery. — connects to: Mental health problems are captured discontent that should be redirected at Capital — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 164; Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42; Stress has been privatized, reframing systemic dysfunction as individual illness — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Stress has been privatized, reframing systemic dysfunction as individual illness #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Neoliberal welfare policy has privatized stress and depoliticized depression #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Post-Fordist restructuring privatised individual workers’ experience of systemic economic stress #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1490
• Emotions, education, and health become profitable once formally subsumed by capital. #expands (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 103
• Treating mental illness as brain chemistry depoliticizes it and serves capitalist interests #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 82
• Biochemical explanations of mental illness serve capitalism by depoliticizing suffering #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1408
• Self-help profiteers while its promised benefits coincide with declining well-being #exemplifies (0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 160