We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
🔸politicians "free to incite rebellion",
🔸corporations "free to pollute", and more.
How did we get here?
Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
In ♦️The Road to Freedom♦️, Nobel prize winner #Joseph E. #Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic #system and the political #ideology that created it,
laying bare their twinned #failure.
👉“Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the #financial crisis, the #opioid crisis, and the crisis of #inequality.
While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth,
wages for most people have stagnated.
Free and #unfettered #markets have #exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike.
Such failures have fed #populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another.
As they grow in strength, 🔥these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.🔥
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324074373

'"Oh c'est la vie, maybe something's wrong with me, but at least I'm free."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDPW_g2AhAU
#flying #freedom #unfettered

Note the words & the #meaning here - #RupertMurdoch says #Fox stars #endorsed #lies about 2020. He #chose #not to #StopThem. We did and do not have a #choice - the #lies were and continue to be piled upon us and #distributed, #littered across media, #unfettered. Is this case not resonating at all - BAU. #Facts not #Lies https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud Murdoch under oath stated #FoxNews #hosts #MariaBartiromo #JeaninePirro, #LouDobbs #SeanHannity pushed #FalseClaims of #ElectoralFraud.