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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Norway is ultracapitalist, owns the largest sovereign wealth fund in existence, 1.3% of world stocks, is antifragile wrt recessions.
The US is one of the few richer countries pr. capita, but does not have:
- clean air
- universal health care
- job security
- good infrastructure
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I think the way I think about it is
there is a state-within-the-state in the US – basically the Norway within the US, and everybody else
the "Norwegian-Americans" should basically have everything they need, while everyone else is fucked
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Yes. Sort of. Except large parts of the US are too polluted, dangerous or impoverished to live in, and the entire country is dangerous.
Of course, they *can* live in protected enclaves and/or abroad, given sufficient wealth...
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To some (e.g. me), one angle to explain this is neoliberalism vs. social democracy.
U.S. side, explains:
- Amazon
- War on X
- For-profit health care
- Bailouts w/o takeovers
- Homeless rates
Norwegian side, it explains:
- Income normalisation
- Job security
- Infrastructure
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IMO the first and most important thing to acknowledge and address when comparing the USA to Norway is the difference in population. 325m people are very, very different from 5m people
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Yes. I'm aware. And your issue is where?