Walmart’s security serves capital reproduction, not human autonomy

Evidence

The security it offers effectively secures the volatile and violent reproduction of capital, not the reproduction of autonomy. Yet, conversely, in the material bounty that is Walmart, perhaps we can also catch a glimpse of the fecund cooperative potential of our species being: to what ends could this power be put were it not harnessed to an empire of debt and securitization, an empire for which Walmart is the flagship? — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 560

Categorization

• CANDY: The closing rhetorical question — what would Walmart’s material bounty do if unharnessed from the empire of debt — is a compact, provocative elevator-argument framing.
• XREF: connects to: Walmart sells consumers the spectacle of security amid manufactured chaos — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 251; Walmart’s power goes unchallenged partly because it produces its own subjects — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 304; Walmart sells protection from the precariousness it generates — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 303 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Walmart exemplifies and shapes everyday financialized capitalism in America. #corroborates (0.82) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 246
• Surveillance capitalism is economic imperatives, not the technologies they employ #corroborates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 62