NP: Noam Chomsky on Corona, Neoliberalism, Trump etc.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 10:15:10 UTC 2020


Still without reading, yes to the massive obscene criminal injustice of the
health care system, esp in the Untied States.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:12 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> as far as I see (which is not very far as I readily concede but farther
> (further?) as some) there's only one aspect to the Chomsky quote that might
> prove him wrong: that this catastrophe will lead to another, less profit
> oriented health care system, because it (the catastrophe) shows the
> injustice of it especially in the civilized nations as your and Noam's and
> my and Thomas's countries. Beware of the dead on our streets.
>
> Am Di., 7. Apr. 2020 um 11:45 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> >:
>
>> Before I even read the piece, which I will, that quote is simply not the
>> case.
>> 1) market signals in general, overall, have shown CLEARLY that the ending
>> and prevention of catastrophe, deaths and
>> ruination are good things even coldly economically.
>>
>> 2) Eliz Warren in her interview with Ezra Klein tells us of a new white
>> paper proving the
>> worst case FOR THE ECONOMY is NOT stopping it wholesale.
>>
>> I see that this is particularly about the ventilator shortage
>> so........but
>> yes, massive cruelty reigns
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:35 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
>> > catastrophe. "
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/
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