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As life is privatised, the individual who stands accused of having failed to make it in the market is subjected not only to new heights of intrusive surveillance but also to a veritable theology of damnation. As the late Milton Friedman put it, in Capitalism and Freedom: “The major aim of the liberal is to leave the ethical problem to the individual to wrestle with.”