Mark Fisher: "Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast *privatization of stress* that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The 'mental health plague' in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently disfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high."
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Amen to that. The human cost of unfettered capitalism is immense. It relies on labour that is as cheap as possible - even if that means pushing its workers to the brink. And then it offers things like Mindfulness to those workers rather than offering tolerable working conditions and a wage that is enough to live off.