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It's the drinking of the "free market" koolaid. It's the absolute personal identification with the idea that "What's good for me is good for the rest of society, and it will all work out. It's the invisible hand at work. Everyone does their rational best, and thus we get the best of all possible worlds."
That's really it. That's the philosophy behind these incredibly short-horizon policies at financial institutions, political parties
Raise your hands if you've read "Wealth of Nations".
*raises hand
Who else? You SunWork? You JazX? Is it buried there underneath your pile of racist cartoons?
There's nothing in there about this philosophy that so many use Smith
Smith actually saw a roll for a robust government providing the environment for capital to operate in. Free markets depend on robust governments.
The whole point of the financial aspects of the Enlightenment experiment where to tear away control of resources and commodities from the nobility. That rent seeking behavior is in fact in direct opposition to man's freedom.
And everything modern "free market" corporatism does is try and seek rent controlled behavior. The extension of copyrights and patents beyond a reasonable term. The creation of "financial instruments" to not aid the betterment of society (the common good) but rather to enforce obscene and unsustainable monetary slavery on wage earners.
The incredibly brilliant part is to get numbskulls like SumWork ("I've lost my house! I owe the IRS!) thinking that it is in fact Big Bad Government or anyone else on he perceives to be a "lower class" than him to be the root of his problem.
No brother, you've been atomized and tricked into thinking that whatever you think you do to best help yourself at the expense of your neighbor is also in your overall "best interests" without looking at the big picture.
As David Lee Roth once said "He who knows how will always work for he who knows why."
If you don't know why the US industrial sector has been gutted, why real wages have fallen, and in whose interest that all is, then you are blind.
And if you want to point with overconfident, blind certainty that it's "them commies in the US government, like that Barrack fellow" you just aren't seeing the big picture.
"...all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Stop being accustomed to the bullshit that is all around you.