#neoliberalism — Public Fediverse posts

Unbelievable! Recent amputee was discharged to a shelter in North Bay as hospital copes with its lack of available beds.

Under Doug Ford, Ontario the country’s richest province has the fewest hospital beds and staff per capita in Canada.

#onpoli #DougFord #healthcare #neoliberalism #privatization #Capitalism
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/recent-amputee-moved-to-low-barrier-shelter-by-nbrhc-12527241

Unbelievable! Recent amputee was discharged to a shelter in North Bay as hospital copes with its lack of available beds.

Under Doug Ford, Ontario the country’s richest province has the fewest hospital beds and staff per capita in Canada.

#onpoli #DougFord #healthcare #neoliberalism #privatization #Capitalism
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/recent-amputee-moved-to-low-barrier-shelter-by-nbrhc-12527241

A Metro grocery store in Ottawa is planning to convert to a Food Basics grocery store ("Food Basics" being Metro's discount grocery store). In doing so, most of the employees are laid off, meaning they'll have to reapply. Potentially the union, UFCW, could "file a grievance challenging a company's claim of a work shortage". Such things take time, and won't be much help to the workers now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/south-keys-metro-to-be-replaced-by-food-basics-costing-employees-jobs-9.7302247

#neoliberalism #labour #Metro #FoodBasics #Ottawa #UFCW #groceries #ndp

A Metro grocery store in Ottawa is planning to convert to a Food Basics grocery store ("Food Basics" being Metro's discount grocery store). In doing so, most of the employees are laid off, meaning they'll have to reapply. Potentially the union, UFCW, could "file a grievance challenging a company's claim of a work shortage". Such things take time, and won't be much help to the workers now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/south-keys-metro-to-be-replaced-by-food-basics-costing-employees-jobs-9.7302247

#neoliberalism #labour #Metro #FoodBasics #Ottawa #UFCW #groceries #ndp

“For much of its history the #LatinAmerican left has placed its hopes in ‘the people’, yet Bohoslavsky wonders if the long reign of #neoliberalism has done away with that term as a coherent political signifier.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

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Public conversation about public problems

https://hamishcampbell.com/public-conversation-about-public-problems/

Public conversation about public problems

https://hamishcampbell.com/public-conversation-about-public-problems/

@gnoll110 tossing up which is worse:
a) article from DeepCutNews on nazi lovin' substack:
https://karlbode.com/substack-still-has-a-nazi-problem-and-doesnt-care/
b) It's written by Greg Jericho, an economist who is the very embodiment of neoliberalism, encouraging us to have a tax, funded by gas, which means more gas, which enables Andrew Forrest, a billionaire who funds Greg Jericho via The Australia Institute and Forrest's Minderoo Foundation.

#neoliberalism #AusPol #Substack

@gnoll110 tossing up which is worse:
a) article from DeepCutNews on nazi lovin' substack:
https://karlbode.com/substack-still-has-a-nazi-problem-and-doesnt-care/
b) It's written by Greg Jericho, an economist who is the very embodiment of neoliberalism, encouraging us to have a tax, funded by gas, which means more gas, which enables Andrew Forrest, a billionaire who funds Greg Jericho via The Australia Institute and Forrest's Minderoo Foundation.

#neoliberalism #AusPol #Substack

This is what extractive neoliberal economics and fucking corrupt politics brings. Politicians and capitalism are fighting for the dubious first place of being the enablers of this all.
Hang 'em high. No, higher. Waaaaay higher. After a thin-peeler has done its job.

#climate #change #environment #industry #politics #corruption #neoliberalism #destruction

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-high-greenhouse-gases-global-sea.html

“Island where it constantly rains is experiencing another drought”

by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack

@uk_politics

“When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.

It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/island-where-it-constantly-rains

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Drought #WaterPrivatization #ShareholderValue #NeoLiberalism #Thatcher

“Island where it constantly rains is experiencing another drought”

by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack

@uk_politics

“When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.

It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/island-where-it-constantly-rains

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Drought #WaterPrivatization #ShareholderValue #NeoLiberalism #Thatcher

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable”*…

Progressives have been fighting on the neoliberals’ terms. Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker propose a flip, an approach that is more humane– and that promises a far more prosperous country…

In 1962, the historian of science Thomas Kuhn published a short book that changed how educated people think about intellectual progress. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that knowledge does not advance through the steady accumulation of better facts. It advances through ruptures—moments when a prevailing framework, or paradigm, collapses under the weight of anomalies it cannot explain, and a new one takes its place. The Ptolemaic model of the solar system gave way to the Copernican. Newtonian mechanics gave way to relativity. The shift is rarely smooth or purely rational. People resist. Institutions resist. The old framework doesn’t simply yield to better evidence; it has to be displaced by an alternative that can explain not just the anomalies but everything the old model explained, plus more.

We are living through one of those moments now. The prevailing economic paradigm—the neoliberal consensus that dominated policymaking across the Western world from roughly the mid-1970 to 2020—has collapsed. It has not collapsed quietly, in the pages of academic journals, where it was already in serious disrepute. It has collapsed loudly, publicly, and catastrophically, in the lived experience of hundreds of millions of people who were told the model would deliver prosperity. Instead, they watched it deliver stagnation and insecurity and drew the obvious conclusion: The people running the system either do not know what they’re doing or do not care about them, or both. The democratic consequences of that conclusion are now visible everywhere.

This essay argues three points. First, that the democratic emergency we face—the rise of authoritarian populism across the developed world—is not primarily a political failure but an economic one. It is the result of a failed set of economic ideas: When the neoliberal paradigm lost its intellectual and popular support after the 2008 crisis, there was no credible alternative, and the resulting vacuum was filled by populism. Second, progressive responses—while valuable—have not filled the paradigm vacuum because they have operated largely within the neoliberal frame rather than replacing it. Third, that an emerging modern economic consensus we call Market Humanism has the potential to replace neoliberalism—not by proposing a new set of policies, but by constructing a new paradigm grounded in twenty-first-century science. This new paradigm can not only to help us create an economy that is fair, prosperous, and sustainable, but also repair our broken democracy…

[The authors explain how neoliberalism broke the social contract (and democracy) and why the progressive response has failed. They explain the “scientific revolutions” that set the stage for Market Humanism: “From Selfish Homo Economicus to Cooperative Homo Sapiens,” “From Markets as Efficient Allocators to Markets as Evolutionary Innovators,” “From Value Is Market Price to Value Is Solutions to Human Problems,” and “From Inequality Is Meritocratic to Inequality Is Created by Structure and Power.” They then outline the steps necessary– the four imperatives of Market Humanism: “Grow the economy by making it fairer,” “Grow the economy by supporting the middle class,” “Measure what matters—human flourishing,” and “Make the state a partner in prosperity.” And they explain how Market Humanism can help democracy succeed. They conclude…}

… It is useful to recall what happened during a previous time a major paradigm changed. For most of recorded history—thousands of generations—people looked up at the sky and saw what seemed obvious: the sun moved, the earth stood still. Entire systems of knowledge, theology, and political authority were built on that foundation. Then, in the early seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei perfected the telescope and turned it on the heavens. What he saw—moons rotating around Jupiter and the phases of Venus—was inconsistent with a universe organized around a stationary earth at the center of the universe. Galileo’s theory actually had evidence you could see with your own eyes.

He brought that evidence to the most powerful institution of his day. He showed the Church’s leaders what the telescope revealed. They looked. They understood what they were seeing. And then they told Galileo to shove his telescope where the sun did not shine. He was tried by the Inquisition and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

Why? Not because they couldn’t see the evidence. But because if the earth was diminished, so were they. The geocentric paradigm was not just a theory of astronomy. It was a foundation of institutional authority, and the people whose power rested on that foundation were not interested in whether it was true. They were interested in whether it was useful—to them.

This is the situation we are in now. The evidence against the neoliberal paradigm is not ambiguous—we can see it right in front of our eyes. But the paradigm has made a small number of people very wealthy, and they have spent decades building the infrastructure that keeps it alive in policy long after it died in the academy. They will not abandon it. They will call the alternative radical, un-American, dangerous. The rich and powerful will circle the wagons and spend whatever it takes.

They will still lose. Not because they suddenly see the light. Because a paradigm that is empirically wrong cannot indefinitely outrun one that is empirically right—not when ordinary people are the ones living the difference and noticing it. The defenders of the old paradigm will lose because stagnant wages, predatory healthcare, and hollowed-out communities are not abstract to the Americans paying their costs. They will lose because ordinary people pick up the telescope, look through it, and refuse to look away.

That is what Market Humanism is. It is not the property of the academics who built it or the policymakers who will implement it. It belongs to the people whose lives it describes—workers, small business owners, teachers, nurses, scientists, young people told their whole lives that the rules of the neoliberal economy are incontestable facts of nature, and who now are beginning to suspect, rightly, that they were scammed.

This paradigm does not need permission from the people in power to take hold. It needs only to be claimed by the people who have been waiting for it. That is how every paradigm that ever displaced a wrong one has won—not because the powerful changed their minds, but because enough ordinary people stopped accepting a story that no longer matched the world they lived in.

That is what is being asked of us now. The telescope is pointing at the sky. The evidence is clear. The alternative is built. What remains is the work of ordinary people, in extraordinary numbers, refusing to live inside a story that no longer explains the world. The people told for 50 years there is no alternative are about to discover that there is—and that it has been theirs all along.

Fascinating, provocative, and eminently worth reading in full: “Market Humanism: A New Paradigm for a New Era,” from @nickhanauer.bsky.social and @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social.

* Adam Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776

###

As we cultivate change, we might recall that it was on this date in 1991 that Nickelodeon premiered its first three original animated series– “Nicktoons“– Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. One of these was not like the other two.

Ren & Stimpy follows the misadventures of Ren Höek, an emotionally unstable (indeed, psychotic) chihuahua; and Stimpy, a good-natured and dimwitted Manx cat. But while Doug and Rugrats were clearly family fare, Ren & Stimpy featured a surreal blend of dark humor, sexual innuendo, violence, and shock. It’s producers had trouble with Standards and Practices; it’s creator was fired after the first year… but kids loved it. It ran for five seasons and 52 episodes (93 segments).

https://youtu.be/dlEqWvFH9Jg?si=i17ySxC5uqtm8IBs

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable”*…

Progressives have been fighting on the neoliberals’ terms. Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker propose a flip, an approach that is more humane– and that promises a far more prosperous country…

In 1962, the historian of science Thomas Kuhn published a short book that changed how educated people think about intellectual progress. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that knowledge does not advance through the steady accumulation of better facts. It advances through ruptures—moments when a prevailing framework, or paradigm, collapses under the weight of anomalies it cannot explain, and a new one takes its place. The Ptolemaic model of the solar system gave way to the Copernican. Newtonian mechanics gave way to relativity. The shift is rarely smooth or purely rational. People resist. Institutions resist. The old framework doesn’t simply yield to better evidence; it has to be displaced by an alternative that can explain not just the anomalies but everything the old model explained, plus more.

We are living through one of those moments now. The prevailing economic paradigm—the neoliberal consensus that dominated policymaking across the Western world from roughly the mid-1970 to 2020—has collapsed. It has not collapsed quietly, in the pages of academic journals, where it was already in serious disrepute. It has collapsed loudly, publicly, and catastrophically, in the lived experience of hundreds of millions of people who were told the model would deliver prosperity. Instead, they watched it deliver stagnation and insecurity and drew the obvious conclusion: The people running the system either do not know what they’re doing or do not care about them, or both. The democratic consequences of that conclusion are now visible everywhere.

This essay argues three points. First, that the democratic emergency we face—the rise of authoritarian populism across the developed world—is not primarily a political failure but an economic one. It is the result of a failed set of economic ideas: When the neoliberal paradigm lost its intellectual and popular support after the 2008 crisis, there was no credible alternative, and the resulting vacuum was filled by populism. Second, progressive responses—while valuable—have not filled the paradigm vacuum because they have operated largely within the neoliberal frame rather than replacing it. Third, that an emerging modern economic consensus we call Market Humanism has the potential to replace neoliberalism—not by proposing a new set of policies, but by constructing a new paradigm grounded in twenty-first-century science. This new paradigm can not only to help us create an economy that is fair, prosperous, and sustainable, but also repair our broken democracy…

[The authors explain how neoliberalism broke the social contract (and democracy) and why the progressive response has failed. They explain the “scientific revolutions” that set the stage for Market Humanism: “From Selfish Homo Economicus to Cooperative Homo Sapiens,” “From Markets as Efficient Allocators to Markets as Evolutionary Innovators,” “From Value Is Market Price to Value Is Solutions to Human Problems,” and “From Inequality Is Meritocratic to Inequality Is Created by Structure and Power.” They then outline the steps necessary– the four imperatives of Market Humanism: “Grow the economy by making it fairer,” “Grow the economy by supporting the middle class,” “Measure what matters—human flourishing,” and “Make the state a partner in prosperity.” And they explain how Market Humanism can help democracy succeed. They conclude…}

… It is useful to recall what happened during a previous time a major paradigm changed. For most of recorded history—thousands of generations—people looked up at the sky and saw what seemed obvious: the sun moved, the earth stood still. Entire systems of knowledge, theology, and political authority were built on that foundation. Then, in the early seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei perfected the telescope and turned it on the heavens. What he saw—moons rotating around Jupiter and the phases of Venus—was inconsistent with a universe organized around a stationary earth at the center of the universe. Galileo’s theory actually had evidence you could see with your own eyes.

He brought that evidence to the most powerful institution of his day. He showed the Church’s leaders what the telescope revealed. They looked. They understood what they were seeing. And then they told Galileo to shove his telescope where the sun did not shine. He was tried by the Inquisition and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

Why? Not because they couldn’t see the evidence. But because if the earth was diminished, so were they. The geocentric paradigm was not just a theory of astronomy. It was a foundation of institutional authority, and the people whose power rested on that foundation were not interested in whether it was true. They were interested in whether it was useful—to them.

This is the situation we are in now. The evidence against the neoliberal paradigm is not ambiguous—we can see it right in front of our eyes. But the paradigm has made a small number of people very wealthy, and they have spent decades building the infrastructure that keeps it alive in policy long after it died in the academy. They will not abandon it. They will call the alternative radical, un-American, dangerous. The rich and powerful will circle the wagons and spend whatever it takes.

They will still lose. Not because they suddenly see the light. Because a paradigm that is empirically wrong cannot indefinitely outrun one that is empirically right—not when ordinary people are the ones living the difference and noticing it. The defenders of the old paradigm will lose because stagnant wages, predatory healthcare, and hollowed-out communities are not abstract to the Americans paying their costs. They will lose because ordinary people pick up the telescope, look through it, and refuse to look away.

That is what Market Humanism is. It is not the property of the academics who built it or the policymakers who will implement it. It belongs to the people whose lives it describes—workers, small business owners, teachers, nurses, scientists, young people told their whole lives that the rules of the neoliberal economy are incontestable facts of nature, and who now are beginning to suspect, rightly, that they were scammed.

This paradigm does not need permission from the people in power to take hold. It needs only to be claimed by the people who have been waiting for it. That is how every paradigm that ever displaced a wrong one has won—not because the powerful changed their minds, but because enough ordinary people stopped accepting a story that no longer matched the world they lived in.

That is what is being asked of us now. The telescope is pointing at the sky. The evidence is clear. The alternative is built. What remains is the work of ordinary people, in extraordinary numbers, refusing to live inside a story that no longer explains the world. The people told for 50 years there is no alternative are about to discover that there is—and that it has been theirs all along.

Fascinating, provocative, and eminently worth reading in full: “Market Humanism: A New Paradigm for a New Era,” from @nickhanauer.bsky.social and @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social.

* Adam Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776

###

As we cultivate change, we might recall that it was on this date in 1991 that Nickelodeon premiered its first three original animated series– “Nicktoons“– Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. One of these was not like the other two.

Ren & Stimpy follows the misadventures of Ren Höek, an emotionally unstable (indeed, psychotic) chihuahua; and Stimpy, a good-natured and dimwitted Manx cat. But while Doug and Rugrats were clearly family fare, Ren & Stimpy featured a surreal blend of dark humor, sexual innuendo, violence, and shock. It’s producers had trouble with Standards and Practices; it’s creator was fired after the first year… but kids loved it. It ran for five seasons and 52 episodes (93 segments).

https://youtu.be/dlEqWvFH9Jg?si=i17ySxC5uqtm8IBs

Why #neoliberalism is a fucking joke

#BoldPolitics with#ZackPolanski

Guest: #ThomasPiketty

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_83pFubGvQ&pp=ygUhdGhlIGJvbGQgcG9saXRpY3MsIFRob21hcyBQaWtrZXR5

Why #neoliberalism is a fucking joke

#BoldPolitics with#ZackPolanski

Guest: #ThomasPiketty

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_83pFubGvQ&pp=ygUhdGhlIGJvbGQgcG9saXRpY3MsIFRob21hcyBQaWtrZXR5

“… the moment you privatise a public service is also the day you should set the date for the Royal Commission into the failures and abuses of the system.”
@ocratato @InsurgoFormica @anne_twain @aj
#AusPol #inequality #TotalitarianCapitalism #privatisation #neoliberalism

“… the moment you privatise a public service is also the day you should set the date for the Royal Commission into the failures and abuses of the system.”
@ocratato @InsurgoFormica @anne_twain @aj
#AusPol #inequality #TotalitarianCapitalism #privatisation #neoliberalism

What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

“In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

“We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

“Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

“Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/burnham-farage-grievance-politics-hanson-uk-prime-minister/107004586

#UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

“In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

“We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

“Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

“Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/burnham-farage-grievance-politics-hanson-uk-prime-minister/107004586

#UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

“When #finance dominates an #economy instead of serving, the whole country pays the price”
#Banksters #insurers #shadowbanks #neoliberalism #capitalism
#TaxResearchOrgUk

“When #finance dominates an #economy instead of serving, the whole country pays the price”
#Banksters #insurers #shadowbanks #neoliberalism #capitalism
#TaxResearchOrgUk

i feel like, too often, all the advice we give/receive for dealing with our struggles is based in uncritical acceptance of social atomization as a fact of life, a law of the universe.

that painful void is left where social connection should be and it can’t be filled with consumer goods or shame. #socialatomization #alienation #socialdeath #neoliberalism #competitiveindividualism #consumerism #individualism #antipsych #antipsychiatry #solidarity #communitybuilding #socialconnection #lonelinessepidemic #disability #harmreduction #substanceuse #depression #mentalhealth #behavioralhealth

@johnquiggin
An interesting comparison. One which hadn’t occured to me. #Nazi #Fascism is a lot closer in historical terms and I stopped there because, well.. because fascist says all there is to say about #Oligarchs , #NeoLiberalism and the #TrumpAdministration.

I enjoyed reading your piece though and I recognised the parallels
Thanks

@johnquiggin
An interesting comparison. One which hadn’t occured to me. #Nazi #Fascism is a lot closer in historical terms and I stopped there because, well.. because fascist says all there is to say about #Oligarchs , #NeoLiberalism and the #TrumpAdministration.

I enjoyed reading your piece though and I recognised the parallels
Thanks

@kyp92

While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

#NSWPol #AusPol

@kyp92

While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

#NSWPol #AusPol

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh

#corydoctorow #ai #environment #necrocapitalism #fascisttech #tech #technology #neoliberalism

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh

#corydoctorow #ai #environment #necrocapitalism #fascisttech #tech #technology #neoliberalism

One of the damaging habits in our broken social lives is constantly putting other people down as part of status games.

That's #stupidindividualism at work, a culture trained by decades of #neoliberalism to compete rather than cooperate. In doing this, we reinforce and worshipping the #deathcult without even noticing.

It's a basic form of #block that we need to recognise and talk about.

#OMN #commons #grassroots

One of the damaging habits in our broken social lives is constantly putting other people down as part of status games.

That's #stupidindividualism at work, a culture trained by decades of #neoliberalism to compete rather than cooperate. In doing this, we reinforce and worshipping the #deathcult without even noticing.

It's a basic form of #block that we need to recognise and talk about.

#OMN #commons #grassroots

Media, the deathcult and climatechaos

https://hamishcampbell.com/media-the-deathcult-and-climatechaos/

Media, the deathcult and climatechaos

https://hamishcampbell.com/media-the-deathcult-and-climatechaos/

If foreign pineapple is further allowed into Australia the local pineapple industry will go the same way as the local automobile industry. #globalisation #neoliberalism

A nice depiction of the neoliberal game plan to get rid off public services and give power to capital.
#capitalism #neoliberalism #PublicServices #socialism

A nice depiction of the neoliberal game plan to get rid off public services and give power to capital.
#capitalism #neoliberalism #PublicServices #socialism

What piece of shite to start the day on social media with. I ask you, what kind of #Grifting brainless entrepreneur would think that there is any sense in sucking up 40,000 megaliters of #water a year from an #aquifer in one of the driest parts of the land on the driest #Continent on earth to stand up an **Intensive** #horticulture business there?

We haven’t seen anything as brainless as this since the Ord River Scheme and cotton industries up North in WA. What kind of madperson even think it is a responsible thing to do? The people behind *Future Agribusiness* are nothing but #NeoLiberal predators looking to profit while raping the land. They don’t give a toss about *Country* and the fragile *ecosystems* on land *Never Ceded* . But I do. In fact, the mojority of this society does care about the land and what is bieng done to it in the name of #NeoLiberalism and #NeoColonialism.

Where is our *Environmental Protection Agency* in all this? Recovering from #Labor Govt death blows no doubt. There is no coming back from this kind of #pillage. Good grief, this is just insane. Here’s hoping the Courts (in reflecting the will of the broader society while adjuticating) will see true justice (in #fascist NT) applied to the benefit of all and not just a few madhats looking to cash up.

/end_of_rant/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/high-court-favour-native-title-holders-fighting-nt-water-licence/106998088

#Environment #Aquifer #TennantCreek #NT #AusPol

What piece of shite to start the day on social media with. I ask you, what kind of #Grifting brainless entrepreneur would think that there is any sense in sucking up 40,000 megaliters of #water a year from an #aquifer in one of the driest parts of the land on the driest #Continent on earth to stand up an **Intensive** #horticulture business there?

We haven’t seen anything as brainless as this since the Ord River Scheme and cotton industries up North in WA. What kind of madperson even think it is a responsible thing to do? The people behind *Future Agribusiness* are nothing but #NeoLiberal predators looking to profit while raping the land. They don’t give a toss about *Country* and the fragile *ecosystems* on land *Never Ceded* . But I do. In fact, the mojority of this society does care about the land and what is bieng done to it in the name of #NeoLiberalism and #NeoColonialism.

Where is our *Environmental Protection Agency* in all this? Recovering from #Labor Govt death blows no doubt. There is no coming back from this kind of #pillage. Good grief, this is just insane. Here’s hoping the Courts (in reflecting the will of the broader society while adjuticating) will see true justice (in #fascist NT) applied to the benefit of all and not just a few madhats looking to cash up.

/end_of_rant/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/high-court-favour-native-title-holders-fighting-nt-water-licence/106998088

#Environment #Aquifer #TennantCreek #NT #AusPol

"Major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war & climate crisis" - @TheGuardian

This is what happens when governments allow "the market" absolute control of prices: profiteering with no thought for the consequences.

This is money sucked out of national economies, as much as from the pockets of individuals. This money could have been used for so much more to benefit global society; but will now be stashed away to earn interest in tax havens.

#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #TaxTheRich

"Major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war & climate crisis" - @TheGuardian

This is what happens when governments allow "the market" absolute control of prices: profiteering with no thought for the consequences.

This is money sucked out of national economies, as much as from the pockets of individuals. This money could have been used for so much more to benefit global society; but will now be stashed away to earn interest in tax havens.

#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #TaxTheRich

Why “Tina” - There is no alternative - equals economic #gaslighting:
#Neoliberalism #Lies
(Via taxresearch.org.uk )

How many **Warnings** do economists, politicians, and political advisers need to be given? We’ve had over **40 years** of *BS* telling us *unregulated* markets performs best and deliver wealth for everyone. Sill, #NeoLiberalism has a chokehold on our economy, against all the evidence and past experiences which show us otherwise. How many warnings? How many do we need before we *re-regulate* ?

“Operating outside the banking system and largely unregulated, private credit is an industry that has many worried, particularly if there is a severe stock market correction or economic downturn.

ASIC has been concerned for some time about the incredible growth in private credit, not just local funds but international funds seeking cash from Australians.

A fortnight ago it issued warnings, advising funds to ensure their valuations were "current, accurate and grounded in realistic assumptions". (Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/property-collapse-highlights-private-credit-danger-jon-adgemis/106992190

The old adage is still valid: If a deal looks too good to be true, that’s because it is. A *warning* to small investors often discounted by those under the spell of snake oil merchants.

#Economy #PrivateCredit #OverValuedAssets #PonziScheme #RealEstateShonky #Developers #FinancialMarkets #AusPol #ASSIC #FinancialRegulations #Finance #Investment

How many **Warnings** do economists, politicians, and political advisers need to be given? We’ve had over **40 years** of *BS* telling us *unregulated* markets performs best and deliver wealth for everyone. Sill, #NeoLiberalism has a chokehold on our economy, against all the evidence and past experiences which show us otherwise. How many warnings? How many do we need before we *re-regulate* ?

“Operating outside the banking system and largely unregulated, private credit is an industry that has many worried, particularly if there is a severe stock market correction or economic downturn.

ASIC has been concerned for some time about the incredible growth in private credit, not just local funds but international funds seeking cash from Australians.

A fortnight ago it issued warnings, advising funds to ensure their valuations were "current, accurate and grounded in realistic assumptions". (Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/property-collapse-highlights-private-credit-danger-jon-adgemis/106992190

The old adage is still valid: If a deal looks too good to be true, that’s because it is. A *warning* to small investors often discounted by those under the spell of snake oil merchants.

#Economy #PrivateCredit #OverValuedAssets #PonziScheme #RealEstateShonky #Developers #FinancialMarkets #AusPol #ASSIC #FinancialRegulations #Finance #Investment

when a non-profit organization holds galas and balls and awards ceremonies at the Ritz-Carlton, understand that they dgaf about you, me, our communities, or social change. their primary interest lies in upholding the status quo and preserving the need for their “services.” free pdf: https://drive.proton.me/urls/E4A1J8HWKC#eQxVaOXghGve #inequality #injustice #poverty #neoliberalism

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117027721092830100

Most surprising about this all, is that people don't rise up en masse. Why do they keep accepting this from capitalists like billionaires, and from their government? Governments who have the legal responsibility to keep their citizens safe, but are in the mean time co-responsible for the climate crisis. RISE UP!

#climateCrisis #insurrection #RiseUp #capitalism #neoLiberalism

Government of Bolivia to Take $1.9 Billion Loan from IMF – Orinoco Tribune
https://orinocotribune.com/government-of-bolivia-to-take-1-9-billion-loan-from-imf/

"However, the agreement, reached on Wednesday, July 29, also raises concerns about possible cuts to public spending, the sale of strategic assets to transnational corporations, and prioritizing the payment of external debt over investments in development."

#Bolivia #IMF #Neoliberalism