This is how I saved the image.
Source: Chapter 1 of Take Back the Economy (Warning: Terminal Liberalism)
Edit: To be fair, it may be more accurate to describe it as a Postmodern feminist book.
The cutesy fonts are really not helping me take this seriously.
Also, making the sun black is a somewhat unfortunate choice from an historical-symbolic point of view…
I’m very confused. Are they saying “wage labor produces for a market in all these other situations people don’t think about???”
We use the idea of an iceberg economy to acknowledge the economic diversity that abounds in this world. The iceberg also allows us to explore interrelationships that cannot be cap-tured by mechanical market feedback loops or the victories and defeats of class struggle. Once we include what is hidden below the waterline— and possibly keeping us afloat as a society—we expand our prospects for taking back the economy. We potentially multiply the opportunities for ethical actions.
This is what they say.
I was also confused when I first saw the figure but I reserved judgment before reading the actual book. Now after reading the first chapter… my initial confusion and hatred is justified.
When I was reading the chapter I was in such disbelief that they really used an example of changing consumerist practices and unionisation as ‘ethical’ actions that can ‘change’ the economy with regards to fast fashion and gendered (unpaid) labour exploitation.
Edit: Clarity.
I see our resident liberal downvoter is at work on this post.
Should we call what he’s doing emotional labor?
Why not just base and superstructure?
But structures are bad and they ignore people’s agency and is economistic, deterministic and blah blah blah (insert postmodern lingo here).
…Okay. Guns and fights to the death it is then.
