Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.
Raoul VaneigemAs poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul VaneigemWork to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem