Read on Twitter
Weird way of saying "privatizations followed by pauperization" 3 times but yeah the crowd is right https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1294986666101420032
Oh you don't want the right of JP Morgan to buy state industries for pennies on the dollar, fire half the workers and reduce the income of the rest by 60% and then placate the survivors with opioids and pornography in a slow genocide while a handful of people get insanely rich?
Oops meant to say freedom. Freedom, people. Who doesn't like freedom? It's like ice cream
Feel bad for people living in such countries tbh
Their choice is between local autocrats crudely exploiting them or the sleek, well-oiled machine of international capital exploiting them so hard yet subtly it'll take decades and several PhD theses to figure out
Their choice is between local autocrats crudely exploiting them or the sleek, well-oiled machine of international capital exploiting them so hard yet subtly it'll take decades and several PhD theses to figure out
To paraphrase a guy (taxi driver of course, lol) from one such "liberated" country I spoke to, something that'll always stick with me:
"They used to eat rice with forks, and we only got the grains that fell through. Now they eat rice with spoons."
"They used to eat rice with forks, and we only got the grains that fell through. Now they eat rice with spoons."
