my portfolio - ups!

no longer citizens (...) but passive consumers (...), we are no longer collective owners of public assets, we are ‘mini-capitalists’ charged with managing our own portfolios of assets and liabilities”

“The rules of the economic game are seen as natural forces governing our lives (...), no longer subject to political contestation, yet they consistently seem to favour some over others. Less powerful individuals – much like smaller, less powerful firms – are destined to be buffered by the ineluctable forces of market competition (...).

- Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley (2024)