Just a Thought...
Published by BG on Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 5:49 PM."Sicko" | Salon Arts & Entertainment
When Moore interviews Tony Benn, a leading figure on the British left, his larger concerns come into focus. Benn argues that for-profit healthcare and the other instruments of the corporate state, like student loans and bottomless credit-card debt, perform a crucial function for that state. They undermine democracy by creating a docile and hardworking population that is addicted to constant debt and an essentially unsustainable lifestyle, that literally cannot afford to quit jobs or take time off, that is more interested in maintaining high incomes than in social or political change.
Maybe I'll try to make sense of this later, but it's an interesting take on things. Corporations are enormous economies all on their own, and certainly do what they can to lobby for laws that make their access to the market as free as possible. There are those that don't believe this is a good thing, and this gentleman obviously takes that a step further.
I think maybe HH might find this an interesting enough topic to run with...
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