Here ya go fuckface. Read this. Just this one study, done by professionals, discussing how neoliberalism effects attitudes towards government and the self and the responsibilities, and abdication of therein.
Unless you thrive on being wrong, I mean, then keep doin what you're doing.
There's no shame in being wrong either. But there's a ton of shame in STAYING wrong.
Idgaf if you change your mind, this is the internet, I posted this for your benefit alone.
Y'know, after chewing on yr comments for a min I think I've identified the confusion.
Neo-liberalism is economic theory. It is not part of our "liberal-conservative" false dichotomy the media propagates. That's propaganda to divide us poors from blaming those responsible for our problems. Neo-liberalism is a reactionary set of policies put forth from Milton Friedman from the University of Chicago to undercut Keynesian economics (The New Deal, a type of social democracy). Pinochet (the murdering dictator) was the first NeoLiberal leader in Chile, followed by Reagan and Thatcher over in the UK.
Every single president since Reagan has been neoliberal. Both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden. All of them.
Neoliberalism has been nothing but destructive towards not only our middle and working class, but to our infrastructure and social institutions themselves. Boomers, the most invested in generation, benefitted from the free or next to free college, $2000 houses and high paying jobs then took all that from millennials and Gen Z instead saddling us with debt. Their debt. When future promises are factored in America is 200 trillion in the red. TWO HUNDRED TRILLION.
That's what trickled down. And it's going to end the country, just watch. #eattherich
For context, the entire planets GDP is 95trillion. We are over 10 times our annual GDP.
Britain after ww2, had debt levels of 270% their output, close to where we are now. Theyve pulled out of it, on paper. Living conditions in the UK have been declining for 50 years and they're STILL paying off that debt today. There's ONE example of a nation not collapsing under that weight, and it was bouyed by us. You think China is gonna bouy us or you think China is gonna take Hawaii? Cuz whoever controls Pearl Harbor controls the Northern Pacific, and that's 1/4 of the globe.
Neoliberalism is trickle down. It's believing that tax cuts benefit society more than collectively investing in that society, usually in direct opposition to any actual tabulated, factual data.
If you don't remember the world before January 1981, and you live in a western nation, than you havent experienced anything other than neoliberalism.
Nixon was more of a leftist than Clinton or Obama. All we've known is the Center-right (Democrats) and the right/far-right.
Conservativism is dead in America. You're average conservative now would look at Dubya's "Compassionate Conservativism" push for Medicare Part D and shriek until their owners finally came and put them into bed.
But then people will start clamoring about retrofitting the empty skyscrapers into housing and then all the NIMBYs houses lose value, and that'd make tax revenue decrease.
I was hoping more for a to do list for my backyard, so I'll have the molecule myself and not be beholden to Big Toothpaste.
I'm handy, I got all kinds of tech skills, but I've only dabbled in chemistry. I'm not uncapable, just green and rough around the edges. I've done a bunch of stuff in the past, like distillations, making sodium silicate (to seal up a forge), anodizing and electroplating, or bleach thru electrolysis. I've also used electricity to separate and collect gases. Hell I even took a fridge apart to use it's old compressor to compress those gasses into different tanks - all in an effort to just not have to buy CO2, nitrogen or argon. Welding with hydrogen is triiiiicky, acetylene is much nicer. I even tried cold welding in a vacuum chamber, lol, but I need a better vacuum pump, probably a rotary one. I've made a bunch of different kinds of batteries and super capacitors.
I've thought about using calcium carbide to create my own acetylene, cuz I've got all the equipment I would need to capture and compress it, but y'know, I like living, and acetylene isn't THAT expensive. Risk≠reward.
Throwing the free market into the housing necedsity is a fine addition to housing - assuming no one is unhoused. Same thing with any kind of insurance. We should be covered by default then allow Cadillac insurance plans on top.
I'm even fine with social housing being the housing equivalent of government cheese. It's not the best solution but it.is.a.solution. which we don't have now.
Instead now we have the homeless shitting in the streets. And I don't blame them. Society shit on them, seems like we could've seen this one coming.
I'm a big fan of Strong Towns. I hope to never live in a city again, but I like what they're doing and think it's a step in the right direction. They certainly picked a giant hill to climb and glory to the brave!
If they actually get some change occuring they should pivot all their clout into outlawing realtors.
There's no reason we necessitate, and then legislate, a need for a middle man.
An app and some transparency and all's good. AI could erase that entire profession before dinner.
Call and schedule a cleaner and handyman.
Get tax, land, and financial records.
Print. Done.
If Republicans win in 2024, they'll be war with Mexico. I'm as sure about it as the sun rising.
They'll need a drum to beat, and since their social policy is losing, it'll be "attack the cartels" full on military on foreign soil.
As much as the cartels are a problem, decriminalization is a better better option to defang them and then give Mexico a hand cleaning up if they ask for it. They aren't incompetent, shit, they build half of everything on this planet, more than China. We can, and should, respect their sovereignity.
They could have 30% ownership and still receive 70% of the income. It's all in the contract. In this case, regardless of the financials, it would mean that they only have 30% of the power on decision making, and that's if that's left up to ownership, in any capacity. Maybe they only have 30% of the votes for the C-suite and after that owners are boxed out.
There are so many different ways to set up a company. Who knows.
Christians who actual act like Jesus told them to act become the most persuasive missionaries, by accident.
If every Christian was as accepting, offered physical, real help while teaching future solutions, and treated everyone egalitarian, or the same, no matter their job, past, finances, race, etc* as Christ was then fuck, Id be a Christian too.
this offer not extended to bankers. Jesus even forgave his killers, but the ones he never forgave, and made him lose his shit and flip tables, were the money lenders.
The housing crisis didn't happen by accident, it's because of greed and policy.
Homeowners voting down missing middle ventures ensures that their home values go up. Municipalities are happily complicent because, one, they also own homes, and two, higher home values = higher property tax.
The housing crisis is that Reaganist attitude, 'i-got-mine-fuck-you' come manifest.
If churches are willing to help fill the unprofitable void left by neoliberalism and greed of human need, then I welcome it.
The state can follow suit by buying old motels, putting a social worker in the lobby and housing the unhoused, preference to families (cuz that'd be multiple unhoused per unit then...).
Another great idea is cutting down on jail sentences for drug charges and all other nonviolent blue collar crime (you embezzle 50 pensions, you should get the chair imo). Then retrofitting half the, now empty and unneeded, prisons into social housing, for anyone who wants it. If you don't want to work and want to write a novel for 3 years, that's fine by me, but youre sharing your 8x10 room with Cisco and all that guy does is talk about plants. Get violent and you go to the real prison, real fast. Chows at 7(am) and 7(pm). Your call.
The only one of these I recognize is Westworld. I cut the cord after the first season and never looked back.