Very much enjoyed this insightful article. So happy to see you call out the 'rat' in the stew - disaster capitalism is a distraction term ... it implies 'capitalism' is again the problem, when in fact there's no capitalism to be found. The only way 'disaster capitalism' can be sustained is with the backing of government. Who paid the def…
Very much enjoyed this insightful article. So happy to see you call out the 'rat' in the stew - disaster capitalism is a distraction term ... it implies 'capitalism' is again the problem, when in fact there's no capitalism to be found. The only way 'disaster capitalism' can be sustained is with the backing of government. Who paid the defense contractors during the Iraq War? The free capitalist market would have shut down that war in twenty minutes. There's no way Americans would have lined up to hand out their hard earned cash - voluntarily - to fund that war. No sir, it was all bought and paid for by government using taxpayer dollars - and borrowings - to the bloated contractors. The same is true for all nonsense that went on during covid - without government force, there's no way the 'free market' would have supported such stupidity. Same goes for the government disaster responses; when you put government in charge of disaster relief all you get is more disaster. It's a pattern; put government in charge of 'poverty' you get ... more poverty. Nothing to do with free market capitalism.
Very much enjoyed this insightful article. So happy to see you call out the 'rat' in the stew - disaster capitalism is a distraction term ... it implies 'capitalism' is again the problem, when in fact there's no capitalism to be found. The only way 'disaster capitalism' can be sustained is with the backing of government. Who paid the defense contractors during the Iraq War? The free capitalist market would have shut down that war in twenty minutes. There's no way Americans would have lined up to hand out their hard earned cash - voluntarily - to fund that war. No sir, it was all bought and paid for by government using taxpayer dollars - and borrowings - to the bloated contractors. The same is true for all nonsense that went on during covid - without government force, there's no way the 'free market' would have supported such stupidity. Same goes for the government disaster responses; when you put government in charge of disaster relief all you get is more disaster. It's a pattern; put government in charge of 'poverty' you get ... more poverty. Nothing to do with free market capitalism.