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third-person singular simple present immiserates, present participle immiserating, simple past and past participle immiserated
(transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery. quotations examples
By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.
1971 November 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, “Phase II of the Capitalist System”, in The New York Times
The fun, pleasurable aspect of playbor troubles scholars because it seems to suggest that playborers are not exploited; exploitation is supposed to be immiserating, not fun.
2018 January 16, Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy, NYU Press, page 51
Higher inequality, in part the result of a real estate boom that immiserated some and enriched others, meant more wealth in the hands of the high-saving rich.
2020, Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops, Oxford University Press, page 76
These regimes will favor older people and contain and immiserate the young.
2021, Michael Harris, Stay Alive: Surviving Capitalism’s Coming Hunger Games, John Hunt Publishing