{"id":1064322,"date":"2023-06-04T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T05:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=284535"},"modified":"2023-06-04T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T05:56:47","slug":"the-surplus-and-the-bystander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/04\/the-surplus-and-the-bystander\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surplus and the Bystander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_284540\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284540\" class=\"wp-image-284540 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Arun_Kundnani_foto-by-Freya-Billington-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-284540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arun Kundnani. Photo: Freya Billington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Arun Kundnani is an author, professor, and activist who began his new book<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you read about broken-windows policing, it's pretty clear that neoliberals\u2019 main concern is precisely to make people, who don\u2019t have a wage, pay for their enjoyment of our streets. People who earn wages are disciplined by their need to compete; someone else can always replace you on the job, right? But if you're unwaged and get a welfare check, irrespective of what you do in life, you're breaking the neoliberal rules. The fear is that you can go down a street and have the fun of breaking a window cost-free, no price mechanism to restrain your behavior. So the police need to make that low-Level crime cost. \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/04\/the-surplus-and-the-bystander\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/04\/the-surplus-and-the-bystander\/\">The Surplus and the Bystander<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/04\/the-surplus-and-the-bystander\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arun Kundnani. Photo: Freya Billington.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Kundnani is an author, professor, and activist who began his new book<br \/>\nIf you read about broken-windows policing, it&#8217;s pretty clear that neoliberals\u2019 main concern is precisely to make people, who don\u2019t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064853,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064322\/revisions\/1064853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}