I’m to be dismissed from my job Jan 3.
I guess I have prospects. Still, it’s a hell of a kick in the teeth, I’ve never been involuntarily terminated from a job in my entire life.
I’m to be dismissed from my job Jan 3.
I guess I have prospects. Still, it’s a hell of a kick in the teeth, I’ve never been involuntarily terminated from a job in my entire life.
RiffTrax Friends, The Gizmoplex, and Twitch Turbo give me everything I need.
My wife and I used to keep guinea pigs and gerbils, and I had a hedgehog for awhile, over a span of about 15 years. The last guinea pig passed in the mid-2000s.
It was worth it, but as I near retirement, I wouldn’t do it again. I’ve had that experience, and I treasure it, but I don’t need to do it again.
“Neoliberalism and Its Prospects”. 1951
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoliberalism/
This entry explicates neoliberalism by examining the political concepts, principles, and policies shared by F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and James Buchanan, all of whom play leading roles in the new historical research on neoliberalism, and all of whom wrote in political philosophy as well as political economy. Identifying common themes in their work provides an illuminating picture of neoliberalism as a coherent political doctrine.
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But several recent book-length treatments of neoliberalism (Burgin 2012; Biebricher 2018; Slobodian 2018; Whyte 2019) have helped give form to an arguably inchoate political concept. As Quinn Slobodian argues,
in the last decade, extraordinary efforts have been made to historicize neoliberalism and its prescriptions for global governance, and to transform the “political swearword” or “anti-liberal slogan” into a subject of rigorous archival research. (2018: 3)
Along similar lines, Thomas Biebricher (2018: 8–9) argues that neoliberalism no longer faces greater analytic hurdles than other political positions like conservatism or socialism.
In light of this recent historical work, we are now in a position to understand neoliberalism as a distinctive political theory. Neoliberalism holds that a society’s political and economic institutions should be robustly liberal and capitalist, but supplemented by a constitutionally limited democracy and a modest welfare state. Neoliberals endorse liberal rights and the free-market economy to protect freedom and promote economic prosperity. Neoliberals are broadly democratic, but stress the limitations of democracy as much as its necessity. And while neoliberals typically think government should provide social insurance and public goods, they are skeptical of the regulatory state, extensive government spending, and government-led countercyclical policy. Thus, neoliberalism is no mere economic doctrine.
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I mean, sure, the term can be misused. But “neoliberal” was adopted by Hayek, Mises, Friedman et. al. to describe their philosophy of liberty, capitalism, and free market policies. So it’s not completely inappropriate to associate “neoliberal” with those principles.
I think that in the minds of Friedman, Hayek, Mises et. al. (who coined the term neoliberal after WW2), it was meant to marry modern pro-market economic ideas (the “neo” part) with classically liberal social ideals, reaching back to the Enlightenment. I think they intended it as a counter to socialism, which combined anti-market ideas with regressive ideas around social and civil liberty (at least, in practical application in the wake of WW2).
But yes, in modern parlance it is often a slur aimed at pro-corporate capitalist kleptocracy.
Is it? Neoliberalism describes a modern conservative movement closely aligned to libertarian philosophy. Privatization, elimination of government programs, tax reduction, laissez-faire capitalism are all under the neoliberal umbrella.
Bogus!
Dumb question, but have you explored recumbent bikes, trikes, electric bikes, motorcycles?
If you enjoy the great outdoors, and the bicycle was a mechanism to get out there, there are many options for continued enjoyment.
Lemmy is where I go for lulz. Beehaw is where I go for community.
I give you the coveted Double Thumbs Up
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Entries 2 thru 10 on the bucket list are all “smack the crap out of Chris Rock”
I know I’m lucky – I’m in a senior position in my career, so it’s likely I’ll find something new for the same or similar salary.
Still, it was completely unprovoked. I had nothing but glowing performance reviews, nothing like an HR writeup or anything.