30 Functional Distribution of Income (Percent), Table 2, base 1977 in Agacino and Madrigal (2003, 47). Here the rate of exploitation is calculated as net profi ts/wages. Th e authors show that the trend continues, even if at lower rates, aft er the fall of Pinochet. Th e change in regime does not mean a change in the underlying austerity agenda. For a brief discussion on how successive governments in Chile preserved Pinochet’s economic and institutional model, and on the current struggles to gain back citizens’ role, see Vergara (2021).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1739