Coalition rhetoric is designed to have us believe there would be no poor if the welfare state didn’t “create” them. If the Coalition must insist on peddling the myth of meritocracy, then surely they must also concede that whilst such a system has some beneficiaries, it also creates situations of insolvency and poverty for others. This wide recognition that the raw “market forces” of laissez-faire or stark neoliberalism cause casualties – is why the welfare state came into being, after all – because when we allow such competitive economic dogmas to manifest – as the stormy present – there are winners and losers. That is the nature of competitive individualism, and along with inequality, it’s an implicit, undeniable and fundamental part of the meritocracy script. And that’s before we consider the fact that whenever there is a conservative-led government, there is no such thing as a “free market”: in reality, all markets are rigged for elites.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:35:45 +0000
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