The more one complies with the demand of "responsibility" to become self-reliant, the more socially isolated one becomes and the more precarious one feels; and the more supporting social structures fall away for "economic" reasons, the more isolated one feels in one's sense of heightened anxiety and "moral failure." It involves an escalation of anxiety about one's future and those who may be dependent on one; it imposes a frame of individual responsibility on the person suffering that anxiety; and it redefines responsibility as the demand to become an entrepreneur of oneself under conditions that make that dubious vocation impossible.

— Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler (Page 17)