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That's actually pretty perfect.

@"Bellingham Bill" please spell out the analogy for me exactly.

rando says

@"Bellingham Bill" please spell out the analogy for me exactly.

The way I saw it was "Inclusiveness/virtue signalling is awesome, but not more important than money."

rando says

@"Bellingham Bill" please spell out the analogy for me exactly.

I'll take this one. Neoliberalism isn't new or liberal. It is really paleocapitalism, the old financial agenda of giving ownership and control of everything to a few owners so they can increase their already massive wealth. The picture shows a shared resource, the bathroom, being available to everyone. The owners seize control of the public resource and then control access to it.

Granted, the restroom isn't a public resource. It's a privately owned resource and rightfully so, but paleocapitalists do apply this power play to actual public resources like land, beaches, minerals, the EM spectrum, geostationary orbits, public domain works, the atmosphere, waterways, water sources, etc.

Goran_K says

rando says

"Bellingham Bill" please spell out the analogy for me exactly.

The way I saw it was "Inclusiveness/virtue signalling is awesome, but not more important than money."

Thanks, that sounds right.

jazz_music says

Very well put, I'll wager the originator of the OP does not understand the definition of neoliberalism as such.

i take neoliberalism to be old-school (European) free-market liberalism minus the Victorianism (social conservatism).

hence the picture above.

Neoliberalism need not be a dirty word, it's not far from my politics, though I think to be a real-world free-market capitalist you need to support a very strong State keeping the playfield level for everyone -- plus providing aid to people who lack the resources to become and/or remain productive members of society.

Cool, reading the wikipedia article on neoliberalism I found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

which is what I was saying immediately above.