Gangsta bling exposes how class escape from servitude has largely failed

Evidence

The (gold) chains have always clanked as loudly as Jacob Marley’s that the struggle to escape servitude has run aground, and that untold riches for a very few were the compensation for the many languishing in inertia, poverty, incarceration. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1324

Categorization

• CANDY: Bling chains clanking like Jacob Marley’s — a wonderfully tweetable one-liner about conspicuous consumption as a sign of unfreedom.
• XREF: connects to: Gangsta culture’s preoccupations mirror a neo-Medieval world of robber barons and blood-honour — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1537

Broader Connections

• Gangsta culture’s preoccupations mirror a neo-Medieval world of robber barons and blood-honour #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1537