• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Since you mentioned him: I do want to point out that the Friedman Doctrine becoming the de rigueur policy of pretty much all corporate governance in the western world did a whole fucking lot to get us to this hellacious hypercapitalist profit-über-alles society with wildly rampant wealth disparity that we find ourselves in - and that western society developing in that direction played a core role in the authoritarian resurgence we’re seeing across the world today.