Social security was built on corporate risk-management logic, not egalitarian citizenship.

Evidence

For Levy (2012), even social security “was dependent upon the instruments of corporate risk management” (314). It was thus “an extension of the insurance principle” and hence “predicated upon notions of male individual entitlement and right rather than the shared obligations of a truly national risk community, solidified by an egalitarian ethos of citizenship” (314). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 692

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common association of social security with welfare-state solidarity; connects to the reader’s interest in how speculation shapes social forms. — connects to: Financially excluded groups sought socialized risk, not a return to older risk regimes. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 132; Social security’s architecture was built on private risk-management and gendered-entitlement assumptions — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 692

Broader Connections

• Financially excluded groups sought socialized risk, not a return to older risk regimes. #qualifies (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 132