Precarity is a deliberate project to strip working-class confidence

Evidence

“The confident slouch of the hands-in-pocket, old Etonian cabinet minister speaks not so much as a current possession of power (on some measures the union boss might possess as much) as of a confidence which was sucked in with his mother’s milk.” (Even if the milk he fed on was unlikely to have come from his mother). The welfare state was supposed to be a structure which removed some of this doubt, while the imposition of precarity is a political project designed to remove the confidence that the working class had attained after years of struggle. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1872

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces ch85/ch103: that identifying the causal chains of oppression is freeing, and that health/welfare policy privatised stress.