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"And in Britain, quantitative easing and the extreme rise in asset prices and property it brought about are as destructive to the lives of millions of ordinary people as were the oligarchs in Russia in the 1990s. The kind of freedom that this sort of technate offers is always very limited: people are just components in a system, free to do what they want, but only within the narrow logic of the iron cage of pseudoscientific economics. A world where they dance, but only in those chains."
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Looks interesting but hedges await so will read it all later. But does that first paragraph suggest that the EEC was established to support neo Liberal market globalism?!?
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
I did read that yesterday, it was good but I wasn't totally convinced by the argument. A little too much ascribing outcomes as intentions to make a theme (which is also something Curtis does too much for my liking).