2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Although they are on a global level and there's been a small but not inisignicant diversification of the topmost wealthy group - in principle more than in reality.
But the economy more than ever is built for the very wealthy and their immediate operational servants in the transnational corporations and political realms. With old privileges not yet broken down at lower class levels, but no longer meaning strong household incomes down here, and with inequality worse and poverty more peristent than ever (whatever the ostensible macroeconomic measures say). And no fully rational direction in the face of the system's self-generated ecological apocalypse.
So the neoliberal age (if we may call it that) shouldn't be touted as an improvement. Do we agree on that much?