Perhaps we can imagine precariousness, instead, as something that is produced and reproduced on an everyday basis by economic and social actors, large and small. Within late neoliberal capitalism, we have seen how it is produced not only through the actions of large corporations, financiers, (de)regulators, politicians and intellectuals, but also by individuals who are compelled to embrace debt and a financialized disposition in order to get by.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 214