IMHO the way a country is managed in Neoliberal societies boils down to the answer to the question “Who can afford to pay the politicians the most?”
That’s not the poor or the working class, it’s the rich.
So Neoliberal countries are managed in the interest of the rich.
Shit like “we can’t increase taxes for the rich otherwise they will leave” is just politicians backfitting excuses to political choices which they do for very different reasons than that.
As I see it, if we include the legal forms of monetarilly incentivising politicians (basically the “if you take care of us now, when you leave that post we take care of you”, with for example when they retire from their elected positions non-executive board memberships for politicians in the industries they favored when in power) the status of “Democratic” nations right now is almost entirelly explained by the high prevalence of Corruption.
IMHO the way a country is managed in Neoliberal societies boils down to the answer to the question “Who can afford to pay the politicians the most?”
That’s not the poor or the working class, it’s the rich.
So Neoliberal countries are managed in the interest of the rich.
Shit like “we can’t increase taxes for the rich otherwise they will leave” is just politicians backfitting excuses to political choices which they do for very different reasons than that.
As I see it, if we include the legal forms of monetarilly incentivising politicians (basically the “if you take care of us now, when you leave that post we take care of you”, with for example when they retire from their elected positions non-executive board memberships for politicians in the industries they favored when in power) the status of “Democratic” nations right now is almost entirelly explained by the high prevalence of Corruption.