The Commodified Consumption Of The Vulnerable: A Solution To Their Precariousness? Summary

Abstract

The article was elaborated to interpret the importance of the concept of commodification/decommodification in the analysis of the consumption of the vulnerable, supported by monetary transfers from the State, which was justified with beliefs that have identified the deficiencies of the social function of the State due to its cost to decommodify public services, considered as social rights,  However, in the Mexican case it was corruption, which emerged as the main cause of the failure to address the needs of the vulnerable, transforming cash transfers, without the intervention of the government bureaucracy, into social programs to support the commodified consumption of a part of the universe of the poor or vulnerable.