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Secondly, the power structures within neoliberalism are also immensely destructive of our mental health. This is, in fact, glaringly apparent within our economy. It is said that economics is a study of scarcity, which supposedly affects everyone in society, but that is completely untrue. Neoliberalism does, in fact, guarantee that one part of the population knows nothing of any consequence about scarcity at all because they have the means to live at a level in excess of their needs. We know that because this 10% also the population save considerable sums, which is the clearest possible indication of that excess existing. The pretence, in that case, that scarcity is a condition from which we all suffer is yet another of the propaganda claims of modern economics that is wholly unjustified.
The existence of savings proves that there’s no scarcity.
That letter with the invitation to Stockholm cannot be far behind.
BTW, economics is the study – in the phrasing used – of the allocation of scarce resources. If the man’s trying to insist that resources are not scarce in this universe then he’s really slipped the rope tethering him to reality.
The question is, which politician, or politicians, or political party, is willing to stand up and say this?
Do we have enough nutters to make a political party these days?