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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3754148" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>Inequality had reached appalling levels, with<strong> 60 percent of American families existing barely above subsistence level</strong> by the time of the 1929 crash.</p><p></p><p>Wall Street’s crash in 1929 and the widespread suffering caused by the Depression confirmed Stone’s fears about unfettered capitalism. Victorian-era writer Herbert Spencer, who coined the term “survival of the fittest” and whose libertarian philosophy was widely embraced in the 1920s, argued that liberty was measured by the “relative paucity of restraint” that government places on the individual. Stone saw this belief, replicated in the ideology of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot" target="_blank">neoliberalism</a>, as a recipe for corporate oppression and exploitation.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-the-law/" target="_blank">https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-the-law/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3754148, member: 56035"] Inequality had reached appalling levels, with[B] 60 percent of American families existing barely above subsistence level[/B] by the time of the 1929 crash. Wall Street’s crash in 1929 and the widespread suffering caused by the Depression confirmed Stone’s fears about unfettered capitalism. Victorian-era writer Herbert Spencer, who coined the term “survival of the fittest” and whose libertarian philosophy was widely embraced in the 1920s, argued that liberty was measured by the “relative paucity of restraint” that government places on the individual. Stone saw this belief, replicated in the ideology of [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot']neoliberalism[/URL], as a recipe for corporate oppression and exploitation. [URL]https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-the-law/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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