People remain hooked on capitalism through desire, not coercion.

Evidence

But to reclaim that agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat-grinder of capital. Capital is not something imposed upon us by Bush; it is we who are hooked on the “garbage in honey’s sack”, unable to kick the habit of returning to the Big Jesus Trashcan for another hit of feel-good junk. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1420

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces ch8’s claim that addicts choose addiction and the substance is an alibi — Fisher literalizes the addiction metaphor applied to consumer capitalism. — connects to: A comfortable, willing population can still be enslaved by its instrumentality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 187; Desire is composed, so capitalism owns no natural claim on it; Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 63 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A comfortable, willing population can still be enslaved by its instrumentality #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 187
• Workers internalize capitalist values and accept precarity as deserved #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 63
• Desire is composed, so capitalism owns no natural claim on it #qualifies (0.80)