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The 61st issue of Current Affairs is here!
💸 How Milton Friedman built our neoliberal hellscape
🌎 Adam McKay on the climate lie hiding in plain sight
⭐ An interview with Abdul El-Sayed
And much more!
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This is the crucial point. The problem with capitalism is that even when it's competitive, the profit motive drives companies toward exploiting workers, screwing consumers, and trashing the environment. You can't save capitalism with more competition.
Marxist economist @profdavidharvey on Abdul El-Sayed's defense of capitalism & choice to quote Adam Smith:
"Why is the incentive profit?...Yeah it's nice to have competition, but competition about what? Competition about having the best healthcare system in the world? No. Competition about higher education?...No. Competition to do what? Competition to make a profit. And it's the whole profit side of things that's absolutely crucial. And that's what has to be controlled."
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"JD Vance is a smart person but he has no soul, and has no charisma, so his thing is just to suck up to the strongest person in the room."
Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”
Florida’s politics have been misunderstood. Democrats have failed to compete there because they haven’t offered voters inspiring candidacies, not because it’s a “red” state.
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Excited to share with y'all my latest piece, published in @curaffairs, about the state of FL politics and the @AngieNixon campaign!
FL gets a bad rap, but the truth is that working ppl don't have the representation we deserve. But that's all changing now
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"In 100 years, there will be nothing. Nobody will want to spend their vacation touring endless rooms full of rusty server racks."
Jesse Wright for @curaffairs: currentaffairs.org/news/trav…
