It was weird to listen to this conversation. Because last year, they said this was the key to Democrats winning elections. But the midterms are in months, and they admit they haven't delivered much. But they still stand by it.
Ezra Klein is insufferable and I truly wish he would just go the fuck away!!! He’s not nearly as smart as his ego tells him he is and time and again he misses the fucking mark on just about everything. I’d like to not have to hear what he thinks about anything, ever again! Fuck him, he can totally fuck off!
Great article and well noted at the end “It’s right in front of the Abundance authors, who come so close yet remain so far from recognizing it in their recent conversation.
Until the Abundance Movement addresses the undeniable power of capital…”
Okay but have you read Alyssa Battistoni's "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" ??? Bc that's objectively so much more interesting than anything Klein has ever done/said and is worth more energy than this tired discourse.
‘Believing that private capital, the most powerful force in human history, has equal power to the local school board or transportation workers’ union is wilfully naive. And if your understanding of the political situation is wrong, then your suggested political solutions will be the same.’
Sums it up perfectly for me. Buying into the idea that all of these sources of power are on equal footing is terribly detached from reality.
Are we still criticizing these guys for basically saying that what works in Europe and Asia should be able to work in the US? I just didn’t see the glaring flaw with that logic, given that touch on the hurdles that exist.
Subsidized housing is just a welfare giveaway to housing lottery winners at the expense of you and I being taxed for it. It doesn’t solve anything about housing costs.
What the Abundance bros fail to recognize is you can’t just call Neoliberalism or trickle down economics by a new name and expect different results! I guess 50 years of failing isn’t enough?
Proving yet again Democrats will grasp at any straw that allows them to continue delivering nothing or next to it to the people who elected them.
It was weird to listen to this conversation. Because last year, they said this was the key to Democrats winning elections. But the midterms are in months, and they admit they haven't delivered much. But they still stand by it.
I have not seen a single person that is not filthy f***n rich that shows anything but angry contempt at the 'abundance' agenda.
Ezra Klein is insufferable and I truly wish he would just go the fuck away!!! He’s not nearly as smart as his ego tells him he is and time and again he misses the fucking mark on just about everything. I’d like to not have to hear what he thinks about anything, ever again! Fuck him, he can totally fuck off!
Great article and well noted at the end “It’s right in front of the Abundance authors, who come so close yet remain so far from recognizing it in their recent conversation.
Until the Abundance Movement addresses the undeniable power of capital…”
They come so close to recognizing it. Yet so far...
“But what if we tried the same exact thing we already have BUT we change the name?”
Neoliberalism 2: Abundance
Okay but have you read Alyssa Battistoni's "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" ??? Bc that's objectively so much more interesting than anything Klein has ever done/said and is worth more energy than this tired discourse.
can't fault you there
‘Believing that private capital, the most powerful force in human history, has equal power to the local school board or transportation workers’ union is wilfully naive. And if your understanding of the political situation is wrong, then your suggested political solutions will be the same.’
Sums it up perfectly for me. Buying into the idea that all of these sources of power are on equal footing is terribly detached from reality.
Ezra Klein is a moron.
Are we still criticizing these guys for basically saying that what works in Europe and Asia should be able to work in the US? I just didn’t see the glaring flaw with that logic, given that touch on the hurdles that exist.
"Abundance" is just more deregulatory neoliberalism.
Subsidized housing is just a welfare giveaway to housing lottery winners at the expense of you and I being taxed for it. It doesn’t solve anything about housing costs.
What the Abundance bros fail to recognize is you can’t just call Neoliberalism or trickle down economics by a new name and expect different results! I guess 50 years of failing isn’t enough?