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With Managerialism, consciousness has been relinquished through reification and the invented managerial necessities of markets, commodities, and things. Necessity, morality and guilt have no place in this ideology. Corporate managers can give a signal that liquidates hundreds of jobs, lives, and — in economic terms — confines people to endless circles of poverty, destitution, depression, and violence on our ‘Planet of Slums’.433 Yet managers can still declare themselves free from all cramps of conscience and live happily thereafter.434 Renouncing morality and guilt does no longer leave even microscopic traces of an unhappy consciousness, a concept reaching back a very long way.
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Klikauer, T. (2013). Managerialism and Positive Thinking. In: Managerialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334275_7
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