Neoliberal states shift the cost of reproducing human capital onto individuals

Evidence

Moreover, in their newly economized form, neoliberal states will shed as much as possible the cost of developing and reproducing human capital. Thus, they substitute individually debt-financed education for public higher education, personal savings and interminable employment for social security, individually purchased services for public services of all kinds, privately sponsored research for public research and knowledge, fees for use for public infrastructure. Each of these intensifies inequalities and further constrains the liberty of neoliberalized subjects required to procure individually what was once provisioned in common. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 72

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The shift from public to individual provisioning pairs with the Grafting & Growth essay’s theme of what communities formerly provisioned in common.
• XREF: connects to: Welfare-state cuts halt the intergenerational mobility they once enabled — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 19; Financial deregulation reframed poverty as a deficit of individual human capital investment. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 200; Right-wing neoliberals justify border closure through utility-of-human-capital logic — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 30 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. #expands (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134
• Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1218
• Neoliberalism swallows humanity through its form of valuation itself #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 75
• Neoliberalism funds repressive state functions at welfare’s expense #complicates (0.75)
• Neoliberal self-entrepreneurship destabilizes the fixed boundaries of personhood #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 418