UK Government to spy on computers of the jobless

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"When social rights (unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, healthcare, etc.) are transformed into social debt and private debt, the beneficiaries into debtors whose repayment means adopting prescribed behavior, subjective relations between 'creditor' institutions, which allocate rights, and 'debtors,' who benefit from assistance or services, begin to function in a radically different way, just as Marx foresaw."

"In 'individual monitoring,' one is expected to come clean. Once a month, those on public assistance must talk about themselves (or make a show of themselves) and justify what they are doing with their lives and their time. But even in the case where the recipient resists this invasion of privacy, the violence against his person and his subjectivity, he is no less troubled by the 'work on the self' these institutions oblige him to undertake."

Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of Indebted Man