Culture chose self-enrichment over collective protest during the 2011 crisis.

Evidence

The year 2011 offered two pathways through the economic crisis: the collective intervention of OWS and the self-enrichment of Jay-Z. Culture went along with the latter. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 226

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Prior everyday neoliberal culture buffered the crisis until the collective mobilized. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 976