The economy systematically rewards separateness while punishing solidarity and mutual aid

Evidence

The tension is fruitful and does not need to be resolved. The problem lies in the fact that our culture is so biased toward one tendency over the other. It’s the scramble for separateness that is richly rewarded and encouraged in our zero-sum economy, while the urge to act in solidarity and mutual aid with others is discounted and disappeared, when not being actively punished. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1078

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the one-sided individualism critique in The Bias of Communication and the communication-as-culture material on how market logic warps the commons. — connects to: Economic dependence on employers or charity can itself constitute a form of domination — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 54
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’—the asymmetry between rewarded self-interest and punished collectivism parallels how sacrificial giving is structurally distinct from exchange.