If This Really Is True, Then Greed Really Isn't Good, After All. It Really Isn't The Way To Maximize The Best Possible Outcome. We Really Do Need To Come Together And Act Collectively. Government Isn't Always The Problem. It's Sometimes The Solution. And, So Their Whole Intellectual Scaffolding Collapses. So, They'd Rather Deny The Science.

-Naomi Klein

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If This Really Is True, Then Greed

Naomi Klein

If This Really Is True, Then Greed Really Isn't Good, After All. It Really Isn't The Way To Maximize The Best Possible Outcome. We Really Do Need To Come Together And Act Collectively. Government Isn't Always The Problem. It's Sometimes The Solution. And, So Their Whole Intellectual Scaffolding Collapses. So, They'd Rather Deny The Science.

Topic

Government

Greed

Intellectual

It Is Eminently Possible To Have A Market-based Economy That Requires No Such Brutality And Demands No Such Ideological Purity. A Free Market In Consumer Products Can Coexist With Free Public Health Care, With Public Schools, With A Large Segment Of The Economy -- Like A National Oil Company -- Held In State Hands. It's Equally Possible To Require Corporations To Pay Decent Wages, To Respect The Right Of Workers To Form Unions, And For Governments To Tax And Redistribute Wealth So That The Sharp Inequalities That Mark The Corporatist State Are Reduced. Markets Need Not Be Fundamentalist.

School

Hands

Oil