Exploitation now occurs without domination, making freedom and compulsion coincide.

Evidence

The achievement-subject stands free from external instances of domination forcing it to work and exploiting it. It is subject to no one if not to itself. However, the absence of external domination does not abolish the structure of compulsion. It makes freedom and compulsion coincide. The achievement-subject gives itself over to freestanding compulsion in order to maximize performance. In this way, it exploits itself. Auto-exploitation is more efficient than allo-exploitation because a deceptive feeling of freedom accompanies it. The exploiter is simultaneously the exploited. Exploitation now occurs without domination. That is what makes self-exploitation so efficient. The capitalist system is switching from allo-exploitation to auto-exploitation in order to accelerate. On the basis of the paradoxical freedom it holds, the achievement-subject is simultaneously perpetrator and victim, master and slave. Freedom and violence now coincide. The achievement-subject that understands itself as its own master, as homo liber, turns out to be homo sacer. The sovereign of achievement society is simultaneously his own homo sacer. By this paradoxical logic, sovereign and homo sacer still generate each other in achievement society. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 131

Categorization

• XREF: The master-slave collapse and the freedom-paradox strongly echo the ‘exploiter and exploited in one body’ line from the reader’s stated purpose; also inverts the classical master/slave dialectic. — connects to: The willing self-exploiter is an absolute slave without a master — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 14
• DEEPTHINKING: Closes the chapter by collapsing sovereign and homo sacer into the same person — the most compressed statement of why exhaustion has no one to blame. Serious, dense, paradigm-level.

Related

• Subjects now exploit themselves voluntarily, leaving no exploiter to blame for exhaustion. (similarity 0.90)
• The achievement-subject’s freedom is itself the engine of its own subjugation. (similarity 0.83)
• Self-exploiting subject makes Hegel’s slave-master dialectic collapse (similarity 0.81)
• The willing self-exploiter is an absolute slave without a master (similarity 0.79)
• The exhausted achievement-subject, not sovereign man, is the one who exploits himself. (similarity 0.79)