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

[ish mailian]

NC simply doesn't understand how companies are structured today.
Apple is profit company. So Apple. But he uses a Standard Oil model to
critique the FANGS. Not smart, sorry. The politics are right on. His
adjectives, his language, ...the twisted corrupt blah blah is the muck
raking rhetoric that   tries to hide his, dare I say it, ignorance.
Sorry.


On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:13 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I love Noam Chmosky, admire him, respect him, agree with him,
> generally, share his politics, say he is one of the greates and most
> important intellectuals of the century, and/but don't excuse my
> ageism, but I think he belongs to the crowd of old white men who are
> tired and riding old hobby horses.
>
> There is plenty of money, profit is the word NC uses, or misuses in
> this case because it's not profits that prevent investment in
> preventing a pandemic. So he's just wrong about this.
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:45 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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