We’re seeing old privatisations now having to be bailed out with massive amounts of public money. In…
We’re seeing old privatisations now having to be bailed out with massive amounts of public money. In electricity, in water, in gas, in housing. Now we’ve privatised a pandemic, and we’ll have to ‘socialise the losses’ there over the next century. /1
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Massive public health costs are accumulating because of what we’ve done with Covid, which again I encourage people to identify for what it really is. Not ‘living with the virus’, but instead the privatisation of the pandemic. Just as we’ve done for water, land and energy. /2
The idea of market-economies is so obviously a failure, in all of these and other areas, that it’s heroic really that just about everybody still uses the concepts and terminology. ‘The economy’ is a failed concept, and the States that adopt it are failed States. /end