So What's Neoliberalism?

[ECCOnoob 1,020]

2 hours ago, Staunton said:

... while the dedicated NHS staff who really have been working night and day in selfless service to save lives, who risked their own health and worked beyond exhaustion, and still labour valiantly to immunise the whole population, it seems that they must content themselves with a below inflation pay rise.

 

Perhaps we should also pause for a moment in remembrance of those health and other essential workers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

Doing their jobs?   The ones they get paid for? The ones that they studied and train for knowing full well of the the duties and responsibilities they will face?

 

Let's not get carried away with OTT emotive language here.   Yes they have all done a fantastic performance in the face of extremely difficult circumstances. Yes they should be praised for their  well appreciated work. But it is still them doing their job. A job like anyone else also had to cope with all the challenges that covid brought up on their businesses  or organisations.

 

Lots of people have had a below inflation pay rise. Plenty of others had no pay rise at all or were subject to lost income through furlough. Even more people have faced the pressures of balancing their dwindling money, lots of belt tightening and robbing Peter to pay Paul.

 

Can we stop this nonsense of putting key workers and particuarly NHS workers as some enhanced saintly superhero status. It's a worthy, difficult and necessary profession..... but it's still just a job. 

Edited May 7, 2021 by ECCOnoob

[Staunton 18]

...while the friends of tory MPs and tax-abusing outsourcing companies enjoyed lucrative contracts counted in multiple £billions of public money to provide goods and services they were not qualified or competent to supply, with catastrophic results that cost an untold number of lives.

 

We really do need to take notice of these dynamics and understand that neoliberalism enriches the few at the expense of the many, and does so by the capture of governments, domination of the press, and by corruption and crony sleaze.

 

Who are the selfless ones and who the selfish?

[apelike 10]

16 minutes ago, Staunton said:

...while the friends of tory MPs and tax-abusing outsourcing companies enjoyed lucrative contracts counted in multiple £billions of public money to provide goods and services they were not qualified or competent to supply, with catastrophic results that cost an untold number of lives.

 

We really do need to take notice of these dynamics and understand that neoliberalism enriches the few at the expense of the many, and does so by the capture of governments, domination of the press, and by corruption and crony sleaze.

 

Who are the selfless ones and who the selfish?

Unfortunately changing the economic dynamics as you put it will solve absolutely nothing except making some who want that change a bit happier. Nearly all the problems we have now is not down to economics but are because of overpopulation as that is the driving force behind the problems we have and are facing in the future. Simply changing the economic structure because a few demand it will do very little.  

 

Solve the population problem first and then think about economic change as without doing that we are set for extinction and none of what you want will matter.

[SFBeca 194]

hi all - can we keep it civil and not name call on here please

[Staunton 18]

Once the stark contrast between the greed and corruption endemic in neoliberalism and the dedicated public spirited effort and integrity of ambulance crews, nursing, surgery and theatre staff is made, supporters of the thoroughly discredited Mont Pelerin doctrine grasp at any distraction, however absurd, in order to confuse and misdirect.