Meep wrote:There is an insidious vein of capitalism, currently dominant today, that believes the market is the ultimate wisdom. It revolves around the completely unfounded belief that injecting competition into anything will make it better (rather than mutualism and cooperation) and public is always worse than private. The market is the supreme arbiter of worth in their eyes. Fortunately, only in America has it become crazy enough and the 'market' worshipped with such religious fervour that people accept it dictating whether people live or die. You don't have to be a socialist to see that this is a crazy and extreme ideology.
Born with a lifelong condition? Sorry, the market says you are not profitable enough to deserve proper medical care. On the bright side, you will die free. Better than living a long and healthy life under the evil thumb of universal healthcare right?
The sad thing is we've been through this before, the whole laissez-faire movement in the 1800's which insisted that the best way for the world to function was with companies that had as little government oversight as possible, as they definitely wouldn't do unscrupulous things just because there was no one watching! It was a complete disaster, and because of that we saw the rise of unions and workers rights.
Rights which were very hard won and now these people at the top are somehow convincing the people who used to work for them that the best thing for them is to give up their workers rights (in favour or rights to work obviously) while simultaneously exporting their jobs to third world countries that never had these rights in the first place.
It's almost like they're doing it to spite them! First we will get rid of their rights, then we will fire them anyway! Oh and of course we will convince them that their job moving to wherever is a good thing because it means the free market is working well.
