Actually the real neoliberal view is that the mother working for 12 hours in the hot sun and putting her baby in a cardboard box for little pay is actually a dramatic improvement on the previously existing status quo, in which both of them and several billion other people could not possibly exist due to a lack of resources.
So you're telling me that instead of trying to maximize AVERAGE happiness of people on the planet by making every person as happy as possible, neoliberals are trying to maximize TOTAL happiness by maxxing out the number of living people? That a neoliberal "altruist" would prefer to have 100 billion people on this planet who are barely functioning in a dystopia of scarce resources rather than just a 100 million people on the planet who are ecstatically happy because they have all the resources they need?
To be honest, I'd always suspected something of the sort. This must be why I hate neoliberals so much. Even their so-called "altruists" are trying to turn the planet into what I consider a vision of hell.
No, I'm not saying anything like that, especially anything that sounds like central planning.
The first thing that I'm saying is the sort of thing Sowell would say: that the sweatshop job is a good job that everyone lines up to have. That people will pull strings with friends and family to try and get their sweatshop job, and line up around the block before it opens to try and convince someone to let them work in the sweatshop, because it's way better than whatever they were doing before. It only looks like exploitation if you come from a level of wealth that's an order of magnitude removed from the correct context. In the same way, cardboard box daycare in the cobalt mines is a better job than whatever else she did before.
The other thing I'm saying is that creating conditions that can support more people takes resources, and that generating those resources requires technological innovations. Among those innovations are free trade and international investment etc. The fact that the population goes up instead of down necessarily means that the resources exist to support those additional people. Another way of saying it is that people can use their resources in any way they choose, and it turns out that they choose to increase their standard of living by having children, rather than increasing their standard of living in some other way.
And I'm saying that your goal shouldn't be supporting MORE people on the planet, your goal should be trying to raise the living standard of the EXISTING people. Constantly trying to support more and more people is thoughtless and evil because the earth has a limited amount of resources so you are reducing the average quality of life for everybody else just so that you can virtue-signal what a "good" person you are.
Neoliberal elites do this all the time, and that's why I consider them true monsters. Their goal is evil and they must be stopped at all costs.
Jan 14, 2023·edited Jan 14, 2023Liked by HumbleRando
The real real neoliberal view is that the cardboard box is actually a box subscription service that the mother and the child must subscribe to. Separately.
Actually the real neoliberal view is that the mother working for 12 hours in the hot sun and putting her baby in a cardboard box for little pay is actually a dramatic improvement on the previously existing status quo, in which both of them and several billion other people could not possibly exist due to a lack of resources.
So you're telling me that instead of trying to maximize AVERAGE happiness of people on the planet by making every person as happy as possible, neoliberals are trying to maximize TOTAL happiness by maxxing out the number of living people? That a neoliberal "altruist" would prefer to have 100 billion people on this planet who are barely functioning in a dystopia of scarce resources rather than just a 100 million people on the planet who are ecstatically happy because they have all the resources they need?
To be honest, I'd always suspected something of the sort. This must be why I hate neoliberals so much. Even their so-called "altruists" are trying to turn the planet into what I consider a vision of hell.
No, I'm not saying anything like that, especially anything that sounds like central planning.
The first thing that I'm saying is the sort of thing Sowell would say: that the sweatshop job is a good job that everyone lines up to have. That people will pull strings with friends and family to try and get their sweatshop job, and line up around the block before it opens to try and convince someone to let them work in the sweatshop, because it's way better than whatever they were doing before. It only looks like exploitation if you come from a level of wealth that's an order of magnitude removed from the correct context. In the same way, cardboard box daycare in the cobalt mines is a better job than whatever else she did before.
The other thing I'm saying is that creating conditions that can support more people takes resources, and that generating those resources requires technological innovations. Among those innovations are free trade and international investment etc. The fact that the population goes up instead of down necessarily means that the resources exist to support those additional people. Another way of saying it is that people can use their resources in any way they choose, and it turns out that they choose to increase their standard of living by having children, rather than increasing their standard of living in some other way.
And I'm saying that your goal shouldn't be supporting MORE people on the planet, your goal should be trying to raise the living standard of the EXISTING people. Constantly trying to support more and more people is thoughtless and evil because the earth has a limited amount of resources so you are reducing the average quality of life for everybody else just so that you can virtue-signal what a "good" person you are.
Neoliberal elites do this all the time, and that's why I consider them true monsters. Their goal is evil and they must be stopped at all costs.
The real real neoliberal view is that the cardboard box is actually a box subscription service that the mother and the child must subscribe to. Separately.
"You will eat bugs, you will live in the box, and you will own nothing. And you will be happy."
-Klaus Schwab
LOL germany
I checked again, S&P have fixed their scores (somewhat at least) in the meantime:
Now they've raised Tesla to 37 and dropped Exxon to 31 points.