@dyckron
#NeoLiberals will do what neoliberals do… sell the Sate to private enterprise. They’re such #Grifting hypocrites, because I refuse to believe that they do not know that #StateCapture is harmful to society.

#Privatisation has never, in written history, benefited society and only leads to degradation of services and eventual parlous state requiring public bailouts… meanwhile #TheRich have sucked all the $$$ out of it in the process. This is a familiar merry-go-round, seen before, seeing it again, and unless things change we’ll see it again… the great golden goose that never fails to deliver to the top end of town.

@gusseting
I kind of agree with you, about the controling aspects of the #FossilFuelLobby. On the other hand, if not for fossil fuel, there would be other lobbies seeking #StateCapture. It is in the #moneyedClass interest to excert as much influence as money can buy after all. Remember the Tabacco Lobbies of yore? Same thing. Today we can also point to the #GamblingIndustry and increasingly #DefenceIndustries.

Unfortunately, with power comes #Greed and #Corruption and #TheRich like it that way. All we can do is stay one step behind our #Leaders ensuring we don’t fall too far back. And the only way to do that is through the ballot box, consistent activism and community-led campaigns (including petitions, protest sit-ins/marches and boycotts, etc.).

I’m hopeful that consistent messaging by communities eventually cuts through to polies and that our govt (of whatever ilk) will eventually push back against #Zionism and its growing influence in everyday Australian social life because it is so egregious atm.

Also more peeps ought to have a good long think about it all and take a moral and ethical stand vis a vis #Gaza, #WestBank #Lebanon, etc. not much help if peeps keep watching #FoxFakeNews and similar #Cronies IMO.

In the grand scheme of things, we need to break up #Oligarchies , #Oligopolies and get serious about progressive #TaxReform.

/getting wordy here, better stop…/

#Antifa #EatTheRich #OneEarth

In computer-science terms this might be called paring the search tree. Dash and Singal and other persons with relatively high social status feel that they have very busy lives and that their time is extremely valuable (after all, they're special and thus their time matters more, and they feel worse about "wasting" that time) and thus they wish to spend the absolute least amount of time possible on the worries of the people beneath them on the social ladder. In a hundred different ways they are inclined to think that such people have earned whatever problems they have, and thus that their lowly social status is effectively a judgment upon them, something deserved. The more conservative they are, the more likely it is they'll say it outright: people WANT to be poor and marginalized, or they're too lazy and demanding to achieve anything better for themselves. High social status is always thought to be earned and the result of hard work.

The exponential scale of privilege is especially admirable in simplifying the lives of the very rich. To be rich and powerful, to inhabit the upper strata of U.S. and "Western" society, is to have immense power over shaping one's personal environment and passage of time. Poor and lowly persons must run around according to the timetables of others; persons somewhat higher up can at least buy themselves occasional oases of leisure; but the true movers and shakers of the world can leave almost ALL their cares in the hands of someone else, and spend their entire lives as if taking one long languid vacation. Such persons travel wherever they like, whenever they like. They don't honor appointments; indeed it's considered a "power move" for a sufficiently rich person to blow off an appointment. They're not held to oaths or promises. To an astonishing degree they're permitted to do that which is regarded as the most disgusting and vile of crimes among the lower classes: rich people get to beg for money.