Children’s play toys train kids for financialized neoliberal life

Evidence

Allison (2003) astutely points out, Pokémon succeeds because it provides children with portable personal and social props for a commodified, neoliberal life where the line between innocent play and capitalistic behaviour is blurred. I am suggesting that the tendency that Pokémon represents responds to and profits from not only a culture of neoliberalism, but also a cultural politics of financialization. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 393

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Children’s culture contains elemental traces of financialization — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 323; Corporate commodities become playgrounds where children negotiate value and meaning — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 375; Play reproduces financialized values of accumulation through material and social reinforcement. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 381 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Children’s toys now socialize kids into financialized subjecthood #corroborates (0.95) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 397
• Children’s play with trading cards trains dispositions suited to financialized society. #exemplifies (0.92) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 567
• Popular commodities function as public pedagogy for financial rationality #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 394
• Neoliberalism works best when subjects willingly internalize market logic through everyday micro-interactions #expands (0.78)
• The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus #qualifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 827
• Finance creatively generates new forms of social and political life #expands (0.70) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 98