To the extent that we succeed in leveraging ourselves out of total liquidation, building up a life of prosperity and (the illusion of) security, we are compelled to close ourselves off to the face of the other, to the image of existential suffering. In fact, we come to loathe it, loathe the way it calls us back into a fellow precarious human body from the privilege of forgetting our precariousness.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 225