Capitalist subjection now appears natural rather than politically constructed

Evidence

Today, subjection to a ruthless capitalist framework seems almost natural. In his 2006 book The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, Jacob S. Hacker describes a “new contract” that formed between companies and employees in the absence of regulation from the government in the 1970s and ’80s: The essence of the new contract was the idea that workers should be constantly pitted against what economists call the “spot market” for labor-the amount that they could command at a particular moment given particular skills and the particular contours of the economy at that time. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 310

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s institutions came to seem natural only after centuries of political legal construction — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 97; Capitalism’s legitimacy now rests on circulating images of appearance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 136; Capitalist realism subordinates people to a reality that is infinitely plastic rather than solid. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 108 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capitalism’s institutions came to seem natural only after centuries of political legal construction — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 97; Capitalism’s legitimacy now rests on circulating images of appearance — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 136; Capitalist realism subordinates people to a reality that is infinitely plastic rather than solid. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 108 (+8 more)