by
Max Haiven
[...] From the false freedom of the "gig economy to the sabotaged charity of subprime and microfinance loans, capitalism's contemporary logic is to, in a profoundly destructive way, make each and every human into not only a source of exploitable labor power but a small-time agent of capitalist accumulation. That most of us will fail is irrelevant: we will be told our failure is our own fault, or sold a fantasy that our failure is the result of Others who cheated in the game (migrants, minorities, "special interests").