Comment by soulofmischief
8 days ago
These tariffs are a disaster, but this is is quite a neoliberal take. So if we aren't the oxen, who is? Vietnam? And that's morally acceptable?
8 days ago
These tariffs are a disaster, but this is is quite a neoliberal take. So if we aren't the oxen, who is? Vietnam? And that's morally acceptable?
Yes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world. Economics doesn't care about liberal concern tools.
China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism: it lifts the world out of poverty through free trade and self-selected efficiency.
China didnt eliminate poverty, it merely shifted dirty work to other poor countries (other SE asian countries). Just like the US did. Just like all countries will do until they run out of poor countries and the pyramid scheme of globalization collapses.
Not everyone gets to have a cushy intellectual office job. Somebody has to do the coal mining.
And then coal mining will be highly paid work, as it should be.
I did not know that having most of your industries run in part by government under five years planning was a neoliberal method.
It exactly is. Neoliberalism is a mix of free market policies and government planning and intervention when that fails.
Oh, you didn't think neoliberalism was free-market libertarianism, did you? If it was that, it would be called that already.
Capitalism needs justification. Neoliberalism is an awful policy. Do I need to school you on the history of US foreign intervention?
You think eliminating poverty is an awful policy?
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Because we all know there is no amount of factory manual labour going on in China.
Did you even think for a second before writting this?
Oh you prefer China went back to Mao's Cultural Revolution agrarian economy from the 60's before neoliberalism?
Did YOU think for a second about what you wrote?
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