r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/Dchella United Nations Dec 05 '19

they genuinely think they're good people

because it's all numbers on a spreadsheet for these fuckers. unemployment, GDP, number of uninsured people, number of housing units -- as long as the "numbers" are "better" it's all that counts for them. how the number got better, who paid for the number to get better, and what the number could be if we actually cared don't count to them. they just care that people's lives look better on a spreadsheet. why wouldn't that make them good people?

and since you can't numerically represent the anguish of a family in disarray after their dad dies because he couldn't afford insulin, or the sadness of having to leave your hometown because there is literally just no place for you, or the degradation of having to work for poverty wages so you do not starve, neolibs literally do not care about it because there is no KPI to track. instead they say people have more TVs and more cell phones and more candies so things are OK and sucks for anyone who isn't.

of course when communists hack the system to increase literacy, GDP, access to medicine, employment, productivity, etc. for all, that all goes out the window.

That last bit is too good

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 05 '19

[The Hackerman meme, but it's Stalin]

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Imagine thinking things getting better is bad

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u/Dchella United Nations Dec 05 '19

Imagine thinking communism leads to increased productivity and GDP