Up to 75% of the businesses some plan to save by ‘opening up’ would have failed anyway, inside 5 years, even…

Up to 75% of the businesses some plan to save by ‘opening up’ would have failed anyway, inside 5 years, even without the pandemic. The ‘Economy’ isn’t a thing, we need to stop talking about it as if we’re living ‘in’ an economy. /1 #auspol #covid19aus

The Economy began only as a measure of national income. Talking about it as ‘the Economy’ makes as much sense as describing your family as ‘our weekly income’. Somebody who talks about ‘the Economy’ is really only describing the income going to successful people. /2

This is all quite deliberate. By inventing this statistical homunculus as a substitute for society, conservatives can bypass all of the usual social and political problems, in favour of a handful of statistical indicators. Indicators that are themselves…/3

…just a tool for the rationalisation of income already flowing to successful people. Unsuccessful people don’t even register in economic numbers, they have no job, no income. An Economy replaces a citizen with a job, and an income. /end