K C · Mar 14

Privately owned companies deemed 'too big to fail' are not competing in any form of 'free market'. Our taxes fund their failure and we throw in a real life 'get-out-of-jail-free' card. Every time. #WeOwnIt

@karaokestan.bsky.social · Mar 15

I agree to a point. But actually corruption is the enemy of freedom. Raw capitalism gives everyone wealth and happiness. Competition incentive tech advancement small business success. Trade unions and Competition are destroyed by corruption. Are essential to

Dream Fulfilled · Mar 14

Free market for whom? As people and workers are on the receiving end of the system. The illusion of consumer freedom is about the “market” being done to workers with more debt & credit.

Yuanjun Zheng 郑远均 · Mar 18

Grace is an eloquent genius in debunking the errors and ideological brainwashing of the dominant neoliberal discourse.👍

Yuanjun Zheng 郑远均 · Mar 15

Blakeley is a master in exposing the lies of neoliberal capitalism and debunking its already failed ideological self-defence!Well-done on that!

Ada Loves Lace · Mar 14

Think we have to define "freedom" first.

Nick of the Northbank · Mar 14

🧵 Every so often, the enormity of what happened 15 years ago hits me afresh... That a few thousand people risked everything to make a killing, it all went wrong, and as a result they got propped up and BILLIONS then lost out. Not to mention the fallout that has since emerged...

@ala8.bsky.social · Mar 15

When greed hits the poor and sick with targeting the vulnerable to get the welfare bill down, instead of the rich and corporations with higher taxes, then it is morally wrong

James Anderson · Mar 14

Thank you so much for using your knowledge of economics for good and not evil! 🙏🏻😇

Kevy B 🇵🇸 · Mar 14

So if fascism is the merger of state and corporate power, and in every major western country, state and corporation now work hand in hand to protect each other, has the west already quietly surrendered to fascism?

Aeddan ap Garth · Mar 14

I don't totally disagree, but you can't just pretend that furlough didn't happen.