Case (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
case) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomsecrets2014-05-13 06:59 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-05-13 06:59 pm
[ SECRET POST #2688 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2688 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.
__________________________________________________
02.
[Frozen]
__________________________________________________
03.
[Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway]
__________________________________________________
04.
[Utopia]
__________________________________________________
05.
[Prison Architect]
__________________________________________________
06.
[One Piece]
__________________________________________________
07.
[Orphan Black]
__________________________________________________
08.
[Craig Ferguson]
__________________________________________________
09.
[Sarah Rees Brennan]
__________________________________________________
10.
[Knights of Sidonia]
__________________________________________________
11.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 037 secrets from Secret Submission Post #384.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Political rants here!
(Anonymous) 2014-05-14 03:59 am (UTC)(link)That said. Going by the American example, and assuming that the Australian right wing party is similarly guided by the interests of the ultra-wealthy, it might not just be about trying to demonise the ALP.
What I think we have seen, however, is that the ultra-wealthy do not care if the economy is good in broad terms. What they are oriented around is the return on the market and opportunities for capital investment, and that is a very different thing compared to the economy as a whole. So they have no interest as such in having a broad-based economy with decent wages, pensions, protection for workers, etc. They would rather make sure that they have a sizable population of people who are willing to take shitty wages and work long hours so they can cut business costs. They would rather governments cut taxes rather than fund social services. They would rather governments sell assets to them and privatize things at cut-rate prices so that they can move their capital there and make good rates of return. And so the economic policy is an opportunity to achieve those ends.
That might come off as sounding like some sort of conspiratorial thing, and I don't think it is. There are ideological justifications attached to all these positions and there are all kinds of ways in which position and interest shape political views. Where the way you see the workforce is shaped by seeing them as lazy while at the same time you're consciously trying to cut down on wages to them. Where the primacy of the private sector means that the best model for government is low-tax, low-expenditure, and a budget deficit is a major concern. But I do think the fundamental ideological drivers, in the American case and perhaps in the Australian case, on the economy is probably the economic interests, and not a desire to compete with the ALP.