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gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭<p>I feel very certain that most Americans really have no idea just exactly how much of our food is imported, but they are about to find out. Thanks, <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a>!</p>
🌈 StyLo the Werunicorn 🦄<p>And hereby it is time to sit down 😌, reflect 🤔 and finally say a great THANK YOU 🥳 to the god of <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> for that he will break all German re-militarization attempts, or at least postpone it for further 15 years.</p><p>My bet: 1/4 of the money goes to the rich and corrupt, 1/4 eaten up by inflation, 1/4 by soaring prices under heigh demand. So 1/4th of the money is finally available to the army and arms industry.</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Random selection in decision-making over public finance – in other words, lottocracy – is not widespread. However, there are some examples outside the United States. Take Costa Rica, for instance. The Banco Popular, the country's main public bank, is governed by a Worker’s Assembly of 290 members, all chosen from various occupational sectors. This board determines the strategic vision of the bank, shaping the programs the bank offers. That said, research and the historical record show that deliberative processes work best when there’s a clear set of issues for people to address. They don’t work as well when the question is too broad. For example, it would be too open-ended to simply gather 290 people in a room and ask them, “What should the bank do?” These processes need clear parameters to guide them.</p><p>We can think about workers establishing democratic control over their pension investments in a similar way. Though we often think of European countries as having large state-run retirement plans, like those in France or Italy, the Netherlands relies more heavily on employer-based pension plans, with one of the largest covering all retail workers. Recently, the retail workers' pension fund, the pensioenfonds detailhandel, which has nearly $35 billion in assets under management, decided to experiment with democratic governance. Even though this fund already follows progressive investment principles – such as avoiding investments in oil or weapons manufacturers – the beneficiaries, who include current and future retirees, came together over three separate days to deliberate on the fund’s investments. After a discussion, they decided to prioritize social good over maximizing returns.</p><p>The beneficiaries didn’t just care about financial returns; they saw their financial interests intertwined with the public good."</p><p><a href="https://www.hpeproject.org/blog/democratizing-finance-to-defeat-the-far-right" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hpeproject.org/blog/democratiz</span><span class="invisible">ing-finance-to-defeat-the-far-right</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Financialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Financialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DemocraticFinance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticFinance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"It’s a myth to think of the US as uniquely free from monetary and fiscal constraints. The US has special powers to issue debt and find willing purchasers, of course, but freedom to issue debt is not the same as freedom to spend. In 1978, the world’s central banks were prepared to abandon their dollar reserves if the US continued to pursue an inflationary politics, as it did under Carter. So in the supply-side view, the US as dollar hegemon is quite limited in the kinds of spending it can support. Off the table is anything that’s too redistributive or liberating—welfare, or investment in free education and health care—because these empower labor and the poor.</p><p>By contrast, spending on defense, police, and prisons was fine, as were so-called tax cuts, which are really tax expenditures. The supply siders proposed a budget that was extremely generous in subsidizing financial wealth holders—creating these government-subsidized markets for capital gains—and extremely austere in subsidizing wages or spending on the poor. I think this captures the real motives behind the business revolt of the 1970s. Despite appearances, supply siders weren’t screaming for less government; they were screaming for government to subsidize capital income on a new basis. Hence this shift from industrial profits to capital gains."</p><p><a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nplusonemag.com/online-only/on</span><span class="invisible">line-only/against-the-people/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MonetaryPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonetaryPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Dollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dollar</span></a></p>
donthatedontkill<p>I'm not going to say who b/c the point isn't to be mean to someone but I saw a video of a person who said we should fight fascism by making bad art out of trash. Like... What? Someone help me out. Am I missing something or is this liberal idealism? Maybe make art for your mental health so you feel good enough to get out of your house to protest &amp; organize.... But the fascists aren't going to go away just b/c we, like, wished really hard.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Over the past two decades, the self-avowed libertarian’s melding of genetic pronouncements with bootstrapping family-values talk has served as the bridge spanning divergent factions of the racialist right, from its IQ-obsessed, DEI-hating Silicon Valley wing to its white nationalist fringes.</p><p>Far from rejecting the dynamic of market competition, this new formation deepens it. From the United States and Britain to Hungary and Argentina, so-called populists on the right have not rejected global capitalism as such. Rather, they have rejected the 1990s model of governing global capitalism that revolved around large multilateral trade agreements—opting instead for unilateral action, as in Trump’s use of tariffs as leverage to open markets for U.S. investors and U.S. products and services. In general, the leaders of this right offer few plans to rein in finance, re-industrialize, or restore a Golden Age of job security. On the contrary, their calls to privatize, deregulate, and slash taxes come straight from the playbook shared by the world’s leaders for the past thirty years.</p><p>In other words, this new right does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it—one that accepts an international division of labor while tightening controls on certain kinds of migration. It assigns intelligence averages to countries in a way that collectivizes and renders innate the concept of “human capital.” It appeals to values and traditions that cannot be captured statistically, shading into a language of national essences and national character. The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different."</p><p><a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bostonreview.net/articles/free</span><span class="invisible">-markets-and-fixed-natures/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarianism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Scumbags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scumbags</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a></p>
ZNet (unofficial)<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchs</span></a> want a recession because it crushes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> and gives them more power.</p><p>While workers need a stable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a>, the rich profit off fire sales, surplus labor, and cheap assets. Tariffs and recessions tighten their grip, allowing them to stack wealth through speculation, privatization, and government handouts. For them, the economy doesn't need to grow—just stay broken enough to keep wages low and profits high.</p><p>It’s all about control, not growth. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/viewpoint-why-oligarchs-want-a-recession/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/viewp</span><span class="invisible">oint-why-oligarchs-want-a-recession/</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"[T]his <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/newRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newRight</span></a> does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/QuinnSlobodian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuinnSlobodian</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bostonreview.net/articles/free</span><span class="invisible">-markets-and-fixed-natures</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AltRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltRight</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SiliconValleyRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValleyRight</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/MontPelerinSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MontPelerinSociety</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/racialistRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialistRight</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
DJM (freelance for hire)<p>The Far Right’s Love-Hate Relationship With Globalization</p><p>A new book by the historian Quinn Slobodian examines right-wing figures who have positioned themselves as populist critics of neoliberalism while weaponizing some of its founders’ ideas.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/books/review/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/09/books/r</span><span class="invisible">eview/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bitcoin</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GoldBug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldBug</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLiberalism</span></a></p>
Sui<p>:blobcathappy: </p><p><a href="https://x.com/Pinko69420/status/1909686382391328768" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/Pinko69420/status/190968</span><span class="invisible">6382391328768</span></a></p><p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Chema Hernández GilThis latest trade war prompted me to revisit my notes as an <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/indymedia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indymedia</a> correspondent at the 2001 WTO Ministerial in Doha, where I witnessed the launch of the Doha Round firsthand. It kicked off years of predatory negotiations that left many Global South countries (and billions of people) vulnerable to what we’re seeing now: abusive tariffs weaponized to extract even more from those with the least. I'll be publishing a full article in the next few days.<br><br>(Can’t believe it’s been 24 years already!)<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/trade" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trade</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/wto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WTO</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/tradewar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWar</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/globalsouth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalSouth</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/tariffs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/neoliberalism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a>
Greengordon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pinhman</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> This is why I want a Liberal-NDP minority (or much better with the Greens).</p><p>"Both main parties In the current Canadian federal election are led by neoliberals. Both believe that markets must be the ultimate rulers of society. To enforce this, both promise to cut government spending, stop expanding the federal civil service, and cut taxes."</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Tucker Teague<p>An interesting talk on neo-liberalism, the war economy, and where does the Left go from here?</p><p>(Note: the video image is sometimes jerky but the audio is good)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/NZQrd3hNz3M?si=CPXcPnqS0CR9fuoF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/NZQrd3hNz3M?si=CPXcPn</span><span class="invisible">qS0CR9fuoF</span></a></p>
Cyril Winstanley<p>Thoughts on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> and building the alternatives <a href="https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/opposing-the-right-building-the-alternative/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2</span><span class="invisible">025/04/09/opposing-the-right-building-the-alternative/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neonazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neonazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neofascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiracism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiracism</span></a></p>
Dark Photon Studio<p><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SirKeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SirKeirStarmer</span></a> is in an impossible situation. He's trying to thread a needle that doesn't have a hole. Make no mistake this is still <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newlabour</span></a> and there is little to distinguish them from <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatives</span></a>. Like so many countries all the parties are in thrall to <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> and they won't move away from it. To do so would be to admit neoliberalism is a disaster. Instead they do what all UK govs do when the going gets tough, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> because they have no solution. They are tied to the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> and the fantasy of "<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a>". The <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tories</span></a> knew this but they had no plan and that's why they called elections. When they get back in, they still won't.</p>
Martinus Hoevenaar<p>Trickle down economics<br>Trickle down economic<br>Trickle down economi<br>Trickle down econom<br>Trickle down econo<br>Trickle down econ<br>Trickle down eco<br>Trickle down ec<br>Trickle down e<br>Trickle down <br>Trickle dow<br>Trickle do<br>Trickle d<br>Trickle <br>Trickl<br>Trick</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The US doesn't have enough qualified tool-and-die makers and other skilled tradespeople to produce the machines that will make the goods that Americans want to buy. New tradespeople can be trained, but acquiring these skilled trades is a process of many years. For the US to reshore its manufacturing, it needs substantial, sustained public investment in capacity-building: loans and grants to train workers and investment in basic research and other non-market goods needed to recover the US manufacturing base.</p><p>America should do all that, but if it wants to try, it needs a robust, predictable, orderly system of government to build upon. It needs the kind of reliable and orderly processes that make people feel safe about changing trades and going back to school. It needs imports of goods from overseas that can be used to restart the US manufacturing capacity that can replace those imports.</p><p>But in a market like this one, dominated by monopolies who needn't fear the Trump-gutted FTC, DOJ and CFPB; where cartels have captured their regulators; where Doge-style chaos spreads existential terror about the future, tariffs will only raise prices, without any significant re-shoring or capacity building. The Trump tariffs are a gift to giants like Nike, who have the logistics sophistication to exploit loopholes, demand preferential rates from shippers and brokers, and to pass on costs to their customers. Any domestic company that seeks to compete with Nike will not have these advantages. For Nike – and other dominant companies – the Trump tariffs are just another moat, another obstacle which they can hurdle, but which stops smaller competitors dead in their tracks:"</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-</span><span class="invisible">matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AlexandraB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AlexandraB</span></a></span> laat het maar aan de markt over zeiden ze<br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> leidt tot <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/unequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unequality</span></a> leidt tot <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
David W. Jones<p>Neoliberal economics, false assumptions, and tariffs</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-</span><span class="invisible">matters-how-you-slice-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
RecurringBloatware<p>Bill Gates is the same guy who has, under the pretense of philanthropy, turned Africa and India into a huge neo-liberal lab for "experimental" medicines and "disease-prevention" measures - at a cheap price of...FUCK YOU.</p><p>We are all toys to this piece of shit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a></p>