@Nuncio @aral to cite @witchescauldron :
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#Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on deregulation and market-driven solutions, pushes for the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. This concentration eventually leads to the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarianism, as seen in the case of Twitter’s transformation.
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=> https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-made-with-the-dotcons/
This is as far as my understanding goes. What's your take on this?
@maybit @Nuncio @aral @witchescauldron I don't recognize today's politicians as liberals at all. Some of them are just reckless, cheap variants of them.
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@Apfel @maybit @aral Isn't that a logical outcome? If your political ideology is founded upon supposedly "values-neutral" ideas, where the only thing that matters are the procedures and appearances, and not the actual consequences or harm done, then you're naturally going to end up with whoever can emulate those procedures and appearances with the least effort - and that's going to be the reckless, cheap variants.
It's like how as soon as you set a goal metric, people will take ridiculous shortcuts to optimize for that metric, even if in the process the original idea gets lost. If you want people to do the right thing, then *the right thing itself* must be the goal, and no form of liberalism does that - they all use proxy metrics.
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@joepie91 @Apfel hum, I'm really weary of comparing "today's politicians" to "earlier politicians", without being specific as to who.
Also, as #MarySchmich underlined in her landmark essay "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" [1]:
"you’ll fantasize that when you were young, [...], politicians were noble"
Finally, please be mindful of the difference between #liberalism and #Neoliberalism . The two are not the same.
[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/06/01/advice-like-youth-probably-just-wasted-on-the-young-2/