Chomping at the bit for whatever makes them richer...

It is very unsettling. All part of the plan. The promise of wealth for all from deregulation and tax breaks for the rich, the lie of "trickle down" has failed. They can't keep banging that drum. The "cause" must now be "the other". Altas etc are very clear they are out to shift the Overton window.

It really didn't take much for Elon's white supremacist mode to be revealed ....🤦‍♂️

19 phone snatches a day? Must be a nice break from 90 MURDERS a day in JoBerg. 🤪.

It's quite a worry the people turning up. Even on LinkedIn these days where people used to restrain themselves a bit.
I understand where these attitudes are coming from. The Peters, Seymours, Jones and less overtly the Luxons of the world 'Green Light' these behaviours without directly endorsing

That's the late stage Atlas/neoliberalism right there. Seymour doesn't expect to have to live in the world he wants to create. Him and his ilk imagine themselves in a bubble, where what they do and say is a game without consequences or effects on real lives. School meals is a prime example.

Appalling really. Seymour and company hate unemployment benefits, but handing millions over to private businesses, with no track record or real obligation is just fine. These Charter schools seem to have free reign.

This contributed to the loss of the industrial base in countries that neoliberalised heavily in the 80s like the UK. Same for NZ?

Shane Jones thinks this is 1929.
He doesn't give a hoot about ordinary Kiwi's. Mining is about big profits for big corporates that he's expecting big board positions from one day.

That's the thing. They are owning up to it...just for some reason the people making the plans don't accept it.

People are in the Matrix. They cannot see they live in a neoliberal dystopia created around them to control them in order to exploit them. People thing this is the 'natural order' of things because it's multi-generational now. Like being born into slavery.

Ohhh the old "floodgates" argument. "Can't trust our elected officials to do a better job armed with a better way to think about money...oh no sir!!" 🤦‍♂️

Maybe. Depends on the overall balances and don't forget private bank money creation. How much money are banks adding that isn't being taxed back. I suppose the housing asset market is a good example of how money creation beyond real resources is inflationary

I'm sure you know this one. If the Bank of England get it.
Honestly how can they not know this? What do they think they do when they do QE? 🤦‍♂️

www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bu...

They have no vested interest in doing so. Framing things in simple household analogies and fear of "debt mountains" is an easy way to justify or not any given policy. Everything becomes around "having the money".

And it doesn't even mention Covid high levels of liquidations 🤦‍♂️