Comments by "robs2020" (@sbor2020) on "Election deep dive: Europe turns Right" video.
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@grannyannie2948
As for the capitalist system, it goes back centuries even, we could include the industrial capitalism (18th to 19th centuries). But disaster started with the 1973 Chilean coup After overthrowing the democratically elected President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet implemented sweeping neoliberal economic reforms advised by economists known as the "Chicago Boys." These included privatisation of state-owned enterprises, deregulation, and cuts to social spending. These policies benefited foreign corporations and the wealthy elite while increasing inequality and poverty. We could also include the Falklands War (1982), Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989), and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia (1990s), and the Iraq War (2003).
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable .
― Milton Friedman
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty .
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
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