Neoliberal reason legitimates casting off labor that fails to aid macroeconomic growth.

Evidence

When individuals, firms, or industries constitute a drag on this good, rather than a contribution to it, they may be legitimately cast off or reconfigured — through downsizing, furloughs, outsourcing, benefits cuts, mandatory job shares, or offshore production relocation. At this point, the throne of interest has vanished and at the extreme is replaced with the throne of sacrifice. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 167

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s prior social-capital work on institutions that exclude and reprivatize risk. — connects to: Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162; Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1218; Contemporary neoliberal subjects are subordinated to macroeconomic growth, not self-interest — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 166 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism replaces natural self-interest with governed self-investment tied to macroeconomic growth. #expands (0.95) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 167