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   Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:24:14 JST Philip Cardella

   "Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including a deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions."

   Deference to the industry.✔️
   Eroded public health budgets✔️
   Neglecting worker safety✔️
   Sluggish Federal response✔️

   This is #neoliberalism not necessarily "capitalism" writ large.

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     Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:24:12 JST Greengordon

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     @philip_cardella

     No such thing is possible. It's been tried, more than once. Capitalism creates rich people who then use their money and power to corrupt democracy. Every. Single. Time.

     "A healthy capitalist system..."

     #capitalism

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:24:13 JST Philip Cardella

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     I'm not defending capitalism.

     I'm identifying the proximate threat and that threat is founded on bad definitions and misunderstanding.

     A healthy capitalist system and should accommodate regulations for food and worker safety from the government under the banner of "for the general welfare" of the people.

     Neoliberalism rejects all of that.

     This doesn't mean capitalism is good. It means that neoliberal capitalism is a specific strain with specific characteristics not necessary to capitalism.

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