Those ordering public-service cuts present the burden as shared sacrifice

Evidence

You reach home, switch on the TV. Emollient patrician voices crying crocodile tears. Public services to be massively cut back. 30%, 40%. … Aristocrats and millionaires telling us: we’ve all got to do our bit. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2502

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch107 recorded claims that apparent conservative ideological contradictions are strategically coherent, and the earlier note that austerity made the poor pay for a banking crisis, ch115. — connects to: The state frames citizens’ lives as a debt it can call in for sacrifice. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 562; Withholding revenue transfers forces cuts in public-sector wages for Palestinian workers — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 320; Welfare cuts paired with corporate bailouts transfer resources from workers to capital owners — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 144 (+1 more)
• SEED: Candidates for a quotable kernel: the title ‘We’re not all in this together’ versus patrician calls for shared sacrifice maps cleanly onto today’s inflation and energy-crisis discourse.

Broader Connections

• Austerity-era sacrifice drops the trickle-down promise that sacrifice would benefit the poor #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 419
• Welfare cuts paired with corporate bailouts transfer resources from workers to capital owners #complicates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 144
• The state frames citizens’ lives as a debt it can call in for sacrifice. #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 562
• Withholding revenue transfers forces cuts in public-sector wages for Palestinian workers #exemplifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 320