All the institutions of ‘advanced democracy,’ all ‘social conquests’ concerning growth, culture, personal and collective creativity, all of this is, as it has always been, simply the right of private property, the real right of the few. And for everyone else there are day-care centers and nurseries, institutions of social control in which the productive forces are deliberately neutralized. For the system no longer needs universal productivity; it requires only that everyone play the game.
--Baudrillard,
The Mirror of Production (132).