Recent decades saw the strip-mining of workers’ wages and conditions. The ‘Economy’ boomed during this time,…

Recent decades saw the strip-mining of workers’ wages and conditions. The ‘Economy’ boomed during this time, join the dots. It’s a bunch of statistical indicators favouring the interests of employers, invented by pollies to replace ‘society’. /1 #auspol https://t.co/oqlvnw9URt

To market economy politics, we don’t live in society. We live ‘in an Economy’. It’s a trick, and a hugely successful one. The ’Economy’ lets pollies who push these ideas do politics, while looking like they’re doing objective economics. All necessary social action then…/2

…is judged by whether ‘the Economy can afford it’. See how the trick works? All political discussions disappear, in favour of a handful of economic indicators, pre-designed to favour existing wealth. /end