11-02-2019, 03:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2019, 03:10 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-02-2019, 04:27 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(11-02-2019, 01:02 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Ragnarok's link doesn't seem to work. But neo-liberalism is the nub of the main clash in politics today. We see the people rising up against it specifically today in Chile, for example.
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Neo-liberalism has several names depending on your fashion. I would also call it libertarian economics, or free-market economics. It's the trickle-down economics philosophy, and its meme is self-reliance, its chief slogans are anti-tax, anti "big" government, and became fashionable when Reagan and Thatcher came into power and effectively stopped and reversed all progress toward a fair and workable society, as I see it. Neo-liberalism's leading proponents are/were Hayek, Mises, Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. Galen is also an ardent neo-liberal here.
1. Link is now fixed.
2. Yup, we're on 40 years of tinkle down economics. So are you better off now than you were 40 years ago?
Good question, turning Reagan's 1980 debate question that helped get him elected into a question of WTF? How did we allow this guy to dominate our lives for 40 years, 10 times longer than his original question asked about?
Yup. All pervasive, because of the policies that allow unregulated capitalism to develop whatever invasive technology will hook you and your life and world into their profit making schemes.