Capitalist production confines workers so thoroughly they fall victim to offerings

Evidence

And certainly the proletarrian is no more naturally a moral man than another; he can flee from his freedom, dissipate it, vegetate without desire, and give himself up to an inhuman myth; and the trick of “enlightened” capitalism is to make him forget about his concern with genuine justification, offering him, when he leaves the factory where a mechanical job absorbs his transcendence, diversions in which this transcendence ends by petering out: there you have the politics of the American employing class which catches the worker in the trap of sports, “gadgets,” autos, and frigidaires. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89 (#expands, via linked claim)

This encouragement is necessary to his doing his utmost: but more than this is not necessary. It is necessary every exertion he makes should be sure of its reward; but it is not necessary that such reward be so great, or any thing near so great, as he might have had, had he worked elsewhere. The confinement, which is his punishment, preventing his carrying the work to another market, subjects him to a monopoly; which the contractor, his master, like any other monopolist, makes, of course, as much of as he can. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightened capitalism captures workers with diversions that dissipate their transcendence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89; Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211; Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Enlightened capitalism captures workers with diversions that dissipate their transcendence #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89
• Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages #expands (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211
• Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions #expands (0.80)