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ageing and accumulation reinforce each other

[...] As the Hills report noted, thus 'economic advantage and disadvantage reinforce themselves across the life cycle and often on to the next generation'. Because the possession of economic capital takes time to acquire, it is also inevitably associated with the ageing process, even when inheritan…

—p.84 Social Class in the 21st Century Accumulating Economic Capital (57) by Mike Savage
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social class as the accumulation of advantage

[...] Social classes, we contend, are fundamentally associated with the stored historical baggage and the accumulation of advantages over time.

—p.46 Contesting Class Boundaries (23) by Mike Savage
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jobs as an end

[...] jobs become a quantitative output (politicians only talk about them in terms of faceless numbers) rather than a qualitative or substantive input that might serve some wider social and existential role. In other words, a job is no longer a means to achieve other things but a (dead) end in …

—p.265 The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation Conclusion: A Marginal Model of Nothingness (256) by Peter Fleming