The Era Of The Business Idiot
#politics #economics #neofeudalism
The broader point I’m trying to make is that neoliberalism is inherently selfish, believing that the free market should reign supreme, bereft of government intervention, regulation or interference, thinking that somehow these terms will enable "freedom" rather than a kind of market-dominated quasi-dictatorship where our entire lives are dominated by the whims of the affluent, and that there is no institution that can possibly push back against them.
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When the leader of a company doesn't participate in or respect the production of the goods that enriches them, it creates a culture that enables similarly vacuous leaders on all levels. Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.
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The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •The anti-SMLW business (where SMLW stands for State and Market of Law and Wellbeing) must always be '
...an entity created to do a thing in exchange for money —has been drained of all meaning...' (The Era Of The Business Idiot). This is the central symptom for a proper diagnosis: it reveals whether a business is neoliberal (money-driven) or communist (power-driven) — for in both cases, it has beenemptied of meaning.Note that what both Trump and Putin ultimately seek above all and above all peoples is just that:
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