Bezos announced WaPo opinions will “be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” There are deep problems with such an approach. Here I propose to the WaPo an oped about just what it would mean to support freedom
https://snyder.substack.com/p/positive-freedom-for-the-post
https://snyder.substack.com/p/positive-freedom-for-the-post
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Well then...
It provided a very interesting response.
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If Bezos wanted to broadsheet his political ideology, cooking/auto maintenance tips, and opinions about various celebrities publicly, he should have bought a grocery store rag, rather than a paper of record with an almost 150 year legacy.
I will miss the convenience but cannot countenance the hypocrisy of touting this poor 'freedom'.
Bezos is supporting darkness as democracy dies.
A threat to all people 🛑
“Personal Liberties and Free Markets”,
Means opinion must fill Bezos pockets.
Free press is gone. It’s totally toast.
Witness the death of The Washington Post.
Someone told me yesterday that three year olds in big old Zurich can walk to school unaccompanied because cars can be counted on to stop for them. Shared rules create freedom.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office?r=7hbkv&utm_medium=ios
Can’t wait to see this reflected in the Post editorials!
Freedom is therefore positive ethically, in that is the virtue that animates all the others.”
Bezos, Andressen, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Musk are so high off the smell of their own farts that they have forgotten that yes, the government binds, but it also protects them from people with nothing to lose. Go ahead fellas, dissolve the social contract. Ya might want to stop selling pikes on Amazon
The latter is far more difficult.
Worth a try, though.
Free markets - "I want to be able to do all kinds of financial schemes and tax evasions. I want no oversight over my white collar crimes and anti-consumer tactics."
But I'd pay extra to omit all of the op-eds! Complete garbage.
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Yet, Russeau as brilliant thinker of the Renaissance, already identified the pillars by which a society needs to operate so that "government" works for the people, not against them.