Culture chose self-enrichment over collective protest during the Great Recession

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. Two days before Zuccotti Park was cleared, GQ honored Jay-Z as “King” in its Men of the Year issue. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 226

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Marx overstate the binary? Was there really just ‘two pathways’? Worth checking his periodization argument.
• XREF: This sets up Marx’s omnivore monoculture thesis — culture signaling wealth over solidarity is evidence for status dynamics mechanism.