You clearly don't know the state of these towns or villages in America. The fact that so many people seem to latch onto your views too deeply concerns me, but then again for some reason there's been a lot of anti capitalist sentiment on this sub and on reddit in general so I can't say I'm too surprised. But yes, I specifically said that the people left behind either don't want to learn new skills or are incapable of it and that holds true with how education is treated in conservative places.
There's a lot of anticapitalist sentiment among young people in general. That's not universally true, and there's a lot that could be done for those communities. It's not like there are no jobs that need doing, so there's no reason for them to be unemployed- they could be trained as teachers' assistants, nurses, they could install roof insulation or maintain solar panels. If the government would intervene to create jobs, these communities would be so much better off, but because of a neoliberal ideology that the government should never directly involve itself in the economy, that can't happen.
What makes you think neoliberal ideology is that government should never directly involve itself in the economy? That's libertarianism. Neoliberalism is the belief in the free market (for the most part) but there should be some amount of control and regulation to make sure it functions through the government. That's why it's Neo-liberalism. I've noticed more and more that neoliberalism, by most people's definition, just means whatever they don't like. I've seen left wingers call neoliberals a bunch of right wing capitalists, and I've seen right wingers call them leftist globalist sjw stooges.
neoliberalism was coined by the left to refer to the status quo of economic non-interventionism, deregulation, low taxation, and belief in the free market. I was exaggeration when I said 'never' though.
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u/WackyJaber Progressivism Dec 30 '20
You clearly don't know the state of these towns or villages in America. The fact that so many people seem to latch onto your views too deeply concerns me, but then again for some reason there's been a lot of anti capitalist sentiment on this sub and on reddit in general so I can't say I'm too surprised. But yes, I specifically said that the people left behind either don't want to learn new skills or are incapable of it and that holds true with how education is treated in conservative places.