Neo-liberal society above the threshold makes every individual an enterprise for himself.

Evidence

The third characteristic of negative tax is that, as you can see, it ensures as it were a general security, but at the lowest level, that is to say, the economic mechanisms of the game, the mechanisms of competition and enterprise, will be allowed to function in the rest of society. Above the threshold everyone will have to be an enterprise for himself or for his family. A society formalized on the model of the enterprise, of tIie competitive enterprise, will be possible above the threshold, and there will be simply a minimum security, that is to say, the nullification of certain risks on the basis of a Iow level threshold. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1081

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s ultimate ideal self is the autonomous self-made individual — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 430; Neoliberalism generalizes the enterprise form across the entire social body — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 823; Neoliberalism governs people by getting them to self-regulate toward economic ideals. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 38 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism makes the enterprise the formative power of society, not merely an economic policy. #expands (0.95) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 120
• Neoliberalism generalizes the enterprise form across the entire social body #expands (0.92) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 823
• Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1218
• Neoliberalism’s ultimate ideal self is the autonomous self-made individual #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 430
• Neoliberalism generalizes the economic form across the entire social field, unlike classical liberalism. #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 105
• Neoliberalism extends market logic to regulate all human behavior. #corroborates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 32
• Neoliberalism governs people by getting them to self-regulate toward economic ideals. #corroborates (0.78) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 38