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Austerity measures are an ingrained feature of capitalism: they stabilize class relations by disciplining the majority into greater market dependence. For markets to exist, a key precondition is a docile population with no alternative but to work for a wage. When most of our day is spent struggling to make ends meet, who has time to reflect on the bigger picture, yet alone alternatives?

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