>>We are still, in many ways, living in the world Reagan and Thatcher built—a neoliberal world of growing precarity, corporate dominance, divestment from the we

>>We are still, in many ways, living in the world Reagan and Thatcher built—a neoliberal world of growing precarity, corporate dominance, divestment from the welfare state, and social atomization. There has been a massive increase in social welfare spending since 1982. The continual mischaracterizations of history by writers at media outlets like Slate is really unethical. Also, the economy is substantially more regulated, and the government's control through omni-surveillance and legal inventions like National Security Letters, has grown by leaps and bounds. The increasingly constrained, legalistic and centralized structure of the economy is one reason people's lives in the developed world haven't improved more since 1982.