https://narrowboatworld.com/14916-net-value-of-cart-assets-plummets the mess we have made on the water from 40 years of worshipping neoliberalism. The experiment has failed, and this ideology is dead. When do we lift our heads #climatchaos #deathcult
Net value of CaRT assets plummet
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sj_zero
in reply to hamish campbell • • •It appears to me that the logic does not follow? Help me understand.
My understanding is that neoliberalism is characterised by free markets, deregulation, privatization, globalization, individualism, and monetary policy.
Neither neoliberalism nor climate caused changes to building codes to ensure new buildings are safer or inflation driven largely by authoritarian covid lockdowns and command and control economic actions by western nations taken as a result, and I'm unsure of how neoliberalism or climate change would be the cause of lower than expected donations.
Realistically, the past 50 years have seen many waterways get much much better in the west.
hamish campbell
in reply to sj_zero • • •@sj_zero
Under capitalism (and neoliberalism is extreme capitalism) everything has a price, and thus must be paid for. In general, waterways are "commons" thus do not have prices for meany things, or are cross subsidized by meany stakeholders. Over the last 40 years we have tried (and often failed) to bring this "price logic" to enclose the water "commons" this is going through a new wave in the UK lead by #CRT and #mainstreaming thinking.
It's making a mess.