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A very good read on what's going on and where we are probably headed.

For Noam Chomsky, the overriding lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that the crisis represents “another colossal failure of the neoliberal version of capitalism” and the situation is made worse in the United States by “the sociopathic buffoons who are running the government” in Washington...

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FrostyJim 8 May 8
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Whether the pandemic highlights a bug or a feature of capitalism depends on your point of view. Captains of Industry don't see tragedy in this, but opportunity. If it increases their wealth at the expense of others, it's actually a success.

The elites who put their proxies in political power have their bunkers built in places like Kansas and New Zealand and are happy to let the world burn so they can come out amidst the ashes and siphon profits off the rebuilding.

Sane people see the pandemic response as a pathetic failure because they have empathy for people who suffer and don't assume those people deserve to suffer because they are losers or sinners or whatever. But don't expect neoliberals to be particularly concerned about what you see as a failure. They live on a different planet than you, conceptually speaking.

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That is almost as simplistic an answer as "Sin".

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I have enormous respect for Noam Chomsky, (even we aussies have heard of him), the man has unique insights and calls it as he sees it.

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