added by Keely Adler · updated 4mo ago
Doing Too Little
- neo-liberalism succeeded not, or at least not simply, because of Milton Friedman, the Mont Pelerin Society and the rest of it. It came to dominate because it was the only plausible language that people could minimally agree on, at a moment when enormously consequential new policies needed to be enacted.
from Cybernetics Is the Science of the Polycrisis by Henry Farrell
I’ve been wrestling an analogy between open licensing’s minimal set of options and the cash-centric/neoliberal minimalism of Homo Economicus. I think this quote unlocks it.
- By enshrining trade-offs in the mode of thinking of policymakers, and business people, and problem solvers, what you’ve actually done is create an incredibly infertile ground for creative ideas . Because you basically treat the trade-off as if it’s kind of just part of the system. I have to ask the question of this kind of obsession with efficiency... See more
from The Third Eye by Kris Abdelmessih
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The idea of freedom ‘thus degenerates into a mere advocacy of free enterprise’, which means ‘the fullness of freedom for those whose income, leisure and security need no enhancing, and a mere pittance of liberty for the people, who may in vain attempt to make use of their democratic rights to gain shelter from the power of the owners of property’.
... See morefrom A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey