This is a great survey of the grand sweep of 20th century economic transformations that led to the neoliberal consensus, and then the 21st century populist revolt, both left and right, against that consensus.
It doesn't offer anything startlingly new so much as make all the moving parts accessible.
It doesn't offer anything startlingly new so much as make all the moving parts accessible.
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I think it’s important for that to be traced out.
Great piece tho
That Western liberals have just completely ceded this point to nativists will never cease to confuse me
In Austin, c. 2010, there was a huge demand for condo towers. But no one would fund the projects until an Irish bank stepped up.
Anderson suggests as much by concluding that the solution, if one comes, may well be the result of ad hoc and untheorized experimentation, rather than conceptual program.
Neoliberalism rests on the foundation that money comes from tax payers & that you can have a money token that is not debt. Which is impossible because it defies double entry accounting
That’s what crypto bros sell: A money token that is not debt
Which would mean that nobody anywhere ever owes you anything in exchange for your crypto
Which is actually true
That’s why crypto bros have rushed to Trump to have the state back crypto