Notes: Projects
If the old capitalism ideally involved an entrepreneur who invested money into the production that he organized and ran, and then reaped the profit from it, a new ideal type is emerging today: the expert manager who runs a company owned by banks or dispersed investors. In this new ideal type of capitalism, the old bourgeoisie, rendered non-functional, is refunctionalized as salaried management: the members of the new bourgeoisie get wages, and even if they own part of their company, earn stocks as part their remuneration (‘bonuses’ for their ‘success’).
Žižek, LRB 26 January 2012, page 9.
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