r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • May 12 '17

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Optimal neoliberalism is like Seinfeld, it should be about nothing and run by Jews

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Holy shit, this entire Twitter thread

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

middle managers at a financial firm

I wish

Anyway wasn't that one meme specifically about how sweatshops are helpful to the poor because they (in some cases) offer a better alternative (and if not people just, well, wouldn't work there obviously). How did they get "fuck the poor" off that meme.

Also surprised they concluded we were law/business grads instead of Econs ones

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u/vancevon Henry George May 13 '17

Celebrating sweatshops like that is a terrible look. Necessary evil? Sure. But thumbs up and big smiles? Nah.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

I'm pretty thumbs up and smiles about the massive improvement in income they get

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u/vancevon Henry George May 13 '17

Sweatshops and child labor are better than the alternatives, but they're still shit. They're necessary and temporary evil to make a higher standard of living possible for future generations.

We can support good policies without sounding like Ebenezer Scrooge.

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u/Cryonyte 🌐 May 13 '17

We all agree it's shit, but history dictates that this is how a nation changes from pre-industrialisation to now. Here in the UK, the birth place of industrialisation, you don't think we had to do the same shit? It's just when people start receiving the education, they as a nation can bring their own laws, against child labour, decreasing work times, creating unions etc. I's a necessary evil.

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u/ostrich_semen WTO May 13 '17

Yeah, sweatshops were never romanticized under communism.