Sublime

For most of the 2020s, the driving economic force will be low growth in productivity, decreased opportunities for investment of accumulated capital, and low interest rates. It will also be a period of increasing unemployment, driven by continued decline in industry and stagnation in high tech as the result of the maturation of the core technology.

However, Trump plans to set up a presidential advisory committee called the Department of Government Efficiency to address that. It’s not going to be an actual department since that requires an act of Congress, but rather it’ll be an advisory group led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The stated goals are to streamline the government, improve

In the United States, the elevation of negative freedom in the 1980s set a political tone that lasted deep into the twenty-first century: the purpose of government was not to create the conditions of freedom for all but to remove barriers in order to help the wealthy consolidate their gains. Wealth was allowed to flee the country, to the

Since the political rise of Ronald Reagan, his party and the moneyed interests have used Potter-like Social Darwinism to justify tax cuts for the wealthy, union-busting, and cutbacks in social safety nets.