Detached agency rhetoric lets blame fall on corporations instead of individuals.

Evidence

Commenting on the habitual practice of detaching corporate wrongdoers from their financial wrongdoing, Dennis Kelleher, head of the advocacy group Better Markets, reconnected the detached human agency. “Banks do not commit crimes; bankers do” (Protess & Silver-Greenberg, 2014b). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1571

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the moral disengagement mechanism of euphemistic labeling and displacement of responsibility from the book’s earlier chapters. — connects to: Meritocratic framing blames workers for failing to profit from hope labor. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 764