Competition has migrated from market structure into the very character of individuals

Evidence

With the dissolution of liberalism, the truly bourgeois principle, that of competition, far from being overcome, has passed from the objectivity of the social process into the composition of its colliding and jostling atoms, and therewith as if into anthropology. The subjugation of life to the process of production imposes as a humiliation on everyone something of the isolation and solitude that we are tempted to regard as resulting from our own superior choice. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 22

Categorization

• XREF: A precise causal claim that competition is internalized as character — anticipates the later observation that private withdrawal is itself produced by production. — connects to: Competitive market culture displaces moral self-reflection in traders. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1468; Collectivization has replaced market individualism even in daily life — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 466; Seller competition manufactures ever new consumer needs, which in turn amplifies individual variation — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 758 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Competitive market culture displaces moral self-reflection in traders. #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1468
• Seller competition manufactures ever new consumer needs, which in turn amplifies individual variation #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 758
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production #expands (0.78)
• Collectivization has replaced market individualism even in daily life #contradicts (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 466