There is no such thing as an apolitical worldview
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VV’s definition: A neoliberal is a capitalist who, like, is *really* capitalist. Like, he’s serious, you guys. He’s not nice. He doesn’t play fair. He doesn’t play by the rules. He wants to put a price on *everything*. And he doesn’t care about ideals like “le free market”. 😢
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A neoliberal is just the inevitable final form of a capitalist. “But capitalists are supposed to be against government intervention!” Lol, cute. They don’t give a fuck. They have no values. They’ll do whatever it takes to win. Throw entire nations under the bus, who cares
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A liberal-turned-neoliberal is just a capitalist who *pretended* to be interested in “free markets” long enough for governments and regulations and taxes to leave him alone until his mega-empire becomes “too big to fail”
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I went looking up "neoliberalism" on Facebook to revisit what my friends had shared about it. Donald is a clear thinker and writer, and his perspective resonates with mine: neoliberalism is "capitalism with the shackles taken off"
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this looks like reasonably clear writing so let's give it a read twitter.com/123456789blaaa
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- too insular, not adopted by those it describes
- too many possible interpretations (this is bloat-death for most word)
I agree
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this is quite singaporean, actually
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this too
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this is such a poetic description of how capitalism works, and again, the sentence makes more intuitive sense if you replace the word "neoliberals" with "capitalists"
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If you replace all instances of "neoliberalism" w/"capitalism", how do you distinguish e.g. the Norwegian economy from that of the US?
(Discounting Norway's short flirts w/deregulation now and in the 90s)
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I don't quite understand the question. Norway is Norway, the US is the US. If Norway still has some measure of national sovereignty, it maybe means that the capitalists haven't gotten around to it yet. You could maybe describe Norway as relatively protectionist, isolationist, etc
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also TIL 5 million Norwegians have a $1T wealth fund. worlds apart from US afaik