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>California prioritizes a strong state university system, immigration & trade, and extremely aggressive pro-worker laws that enable very small businesses to com
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>California prioritizes a strong state university system, immigration & trade, and extremely aggressive pro-worker laws that enable very small businesses to compete with very large businesses directly.
That's the opposite of neoliberalism[1]. Peak neoliberalism in the USA is Kansas and Michigan.
[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
- KirinDave 10y agoYou need to hang out with more communists.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoAbout half my friends are communists. "Neoliberalism" still has a fairly specific meaning.
- KirinDave 10y agoI was being glib, but I do want to clarify more seriously: the federal environment was neoliberal. States that have succeeded have recognized that excess and written policy compete directly with states on worker stability. In a strict sense, you're right. As a consequence of federal policy, it's inevitable that some states would try these strategies. They're the ones that the less successful states point at and say, "smug elites". My point is that their state legislature did very little to protect them. I realize that I edited a paragraph to say "embraced" to remove the remainder of the sentence to remove the words "as opposed to gamed the system", which is what I consider several blue states to be doing. In this sense, neoliberalism has enabled an apples-to-apples comparison in an increasingly open border economy. Some people even argue that this was the ONLY way to get any sort of test (which is what I was alluding to with my prosperity statement, I don't buy this).