points by coldtea 3 days ago | 0 comments
>It's very normal to think that the extra revenue growth you bring in should mean you have either 1) a larger share of the pie for every efficiency increase that grows revenue or 2) less expectation from you, as a worker, to labor as intensively since you are continue to bring in surplus value that is being actively skimmed from.
It's also very normal to force businesses by law to either or both. But it's not happening these days.
[–] oblio 3 days ago
That's what happens when people think the government should be run like a business.
[–] paimapi 3 days ago
Arguably, I would say this has been a 50+ year-long project starting in the Reagan/Thatcher era that Clinton/Blair fully realized by ushering in de-regulatory, labor-disempowering neoliberal policies as part of the left political flank. There's been a lot written about this:
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/labour-callaghan-neoliberalism-m...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-legacy-of-the-clinto...
https://sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/the-sage-handbook-of-neoli...
[–] graemep 3 days ago
I dislike the phrase neoliberal (its badly defined). I would argue that Blair (and Brown and Cameron etc.) was a lot worse than Thatcher because Thatcher did want competitive markets, whereas more recently its just been "business friendly" which is quite the opposite.
[–] paimapi 2 days ago
I prefer Graeber's definition (RIP) -
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-neolib...
[–] singpolyma3 3 days ago