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I'd like someone to do a reading of Martin Shkreli as "satirist of neoliberalism", and suggest that the reason so many people hate him so much is that he's a sc
by defen 9y ago
I'd like someone to do a reading of Martin Shkreli as "satirist of neoliberalism", and suggest that the reason so many people hate him so much is that he's a scapegoat for our collective feelings of guilt. Can anyone offer a valid critique of his raising the price of Daraprim, within the frame of neoliberalism, that doesn't just reduce to "that guy's a real jerk!"?
- CalChris 9y agoBefore we did that we'd have to agree on what neoliberalism is. One definition cited by Wikipedia is: > Neoliberal theory argues that a free market will allow efficiency, economic growth, income distribution, and technological progress to occur. Any state intervention to encourage these phenomena will worsen economic performance. Another is that neoliberalism is the relitigation of the New Deal. I like the second more operational definition since it doesn't ignore history.