Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "How Neoliberalism Failed The World" video.

  1. HEY THOM Damaging America for 40 years????? What about the rest of the world or don't you think about our pain, misery and suffering. Because we all got told things like: "This expert out of Harvard says that competition will get you better services at lower prices. Now start selling off all of your state owned assets like buildings, roads and power stations. But only sell us the good ones because Milton told us 'Greed is Good' and we don't need the stuff that wont make us money." I'm Australian and you know that sweet little power grid in Texas that works so awesome that children die frozen in their beds. Yeah the one that was designed by an Economics Professor at Harvard. Well we had an Australian go to Harvard and when he came back he did the same thing to our water systems. He told us the same stuff: "The best way to distribute resources is with an unrestricted free market." He even bragged to the Germans DW network in one of their water documentaries about how great our "sophisticated" water market was. A while back there was a news item here on YT about rising energy costs. It was before the current crisis. In the middle of the discussion a guy claiming to be Romanian told us all to go f--k ourselves because other Europeans and Americans had come to Romania and got them to privatise the Romanian energy market. Do you know what the Romanians were told? "Competition will get you better services at lower prices." Just like everywhere else where massive privatisation programs were done the services went down and the prices went up because everyone also forgot that Uncle Milton also said: "The only purpose a corporation has is to deliver profits to its owners." Better services at lower prices don't fit well with Uncle Milton's ideology. So Thom, Please stop thinking that these are just American issues.
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