The structure ensures that individuals within the working class choose individualized forms of resistance over collective ones. They do so not because they fail

The structure ensures that individuals within the working class choose individualized forms of resistance over collective ones. They do so not because they fail to recognize their interests, as theories of false consciousness or cultural hegemony would have it. Both of these approaches insisted that workers in some way failed to understand their immediate material interests. Actually, it is because workers accurately perceive the risks and costs associated with collective action. Hence, they typically opt for individualized forms of advancement over collective ones. But to opt for an individualized strategy is nothing other than to accept the dominant position of the employer—and of capitalists as a class. It leaves unchallenged the employer’s structural power over the worker and seeks simply to maximize the worker’s welfare within the latter’s parameters. It is a tacit acceptance of the rules of the game, rather than an effort to transform or even challenge them. Bingo. I hate the game, but I'm not willing to break it in favor of a game that might be better for everybody else but not necessarily better for me. I'm looking out for myself because I can't -- and won't -- count on others to give my welfare the slightest consideration.