Workfare reality TV structures blame to fall on individuals rather than systems

Evidence

So what exactly was the moral of the show? That finding work is easier when you have a well-known, well-connected recruitment specialist in your corner? Shocking. And even then — if Taylor fails to find work for the family next week, we can expect blame to be diverted to them. There is no systemic analysis. Blame falls solely upon the individuals (and, yes, their families). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 631

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reality TV’s bourgeois gaze morally moralises working-class deficit as lack of will — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 710; The television industry externalizes harm by shifting blame onto parents’ failings — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 919; Reality TV generates belief that self-improvement alone can fix any situation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 632

Broader Connections

• Reality TV’s bourgeois gaze morally moralises working-class deficit as lack of will #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 710
• The television industry externalizes harm by shifting blame onto parents’ failings #corroborates (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 919