It may be true that the idea, propagated widely throughout the media landscape, that we are all “financiers” and “risk managers” obfuscates key class antagonisms and economic realities (notably, that the vast majority of us have no real assets to speak of, and the financial economy is being run by what can, without too much exaggeration, be characterized as a cabal of lawless oligarchs).

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 36