Meritocratic framing blames workers for failing to profit from hope labor.

Evidence

Under this meritocratic framing, the failure to realize a return on one’s investment can be explained away as an individual’s lack of talent or hard work, or by simply not playing the hope labor game smartly enough or for long enough. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 764

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Independent-work boosters frame gig careers as voluntary self-fulfillment — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 508; Content creators’ earnings are piecemeal and far below popular perceptions — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 572; Meritocratic ideology functions as a weapon removing agency from workers. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1572 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Meritocratic ideology functions as a weapon removing agency from workers. #corroborates (0.92) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1572
• Working men internalize self-blame for their own class position. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Detached agency rhetoric lets blame fall on corporations instead of individuals. #expands (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1571
• Neoliberal reason legitimates casting off labor that fails to aid macroeconomic growth. #complicates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 167
• The rhetoric of creativity masks Marxian exploitation of living labor. #corroborates (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 452