People’s caring practices exceed and outlast anything capital offers

Evidence

For all the capitalist realist posturing, the open secret is that human beings continue to engage in caring and nurturing practices, practices which, moreover, remain more important to them than anything capital can offer. Shopworn PR injunctions won’t cut it in any more. How can you believe that “anyone can make it”, when you and everyone you know is unemployed or underemployed? When the reward for poorly paid night shifts and cold early mornings is more of the same, if you are lucky? You can never do enough for capital. It’s not enough to produce and retail shoddy commodities no one really wants — you must also be “passionate” about it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2018

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even tiny intimations of mortality drive humans to prove their worth — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 229; Working people embraced finance as resistance to capital since World War II — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 514; Social capital accrues value to others beyond those who create it. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 208

Broader Connections

• Working people embraced finance as resistance to capital since World War II #corroborates (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 514
• Social capital accrues value to others beyond those who create it. #complicates (0.72) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 208
• Even tiny intimations of mortality drive humans to prove their worth #responds-to (0.70) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 229