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Re:Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment? by tossAfterUsing on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:39AM (#20354515)
i was pretty young (<10) when i realized the television was always referring to me as a "consumer" and it felt awful, even then. if anything, i'm a "customer".

i hadn't, until today, realized that it was a Neoliberal thing.

thanks for your comment.

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Re:Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment? by abyssin on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:56AM (#20354671)
As Mises wrote: "When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace."

https://mises.org/library/meaning-market-democracy

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Re:Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment? by tossAfterUsing on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:27AM (#20382497)
https://mises.org/power-market/was-mises-neoliberal
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