Government will pay for favouring ‘big business’

Letters page correspondent Maeve Halpin nails the neoliberal capitalist myth that open free-marketeering does something for ordinary people.

How could it? There is one grand stash of ‘gold-coins’ in the global bucket. If a tiny cabal at the top-table takes most of it, then there won’t be enough at the margins. No mystery there — simple add and subtract. Distorted wealth-inequalities equal poverty.

The social derelection practised by many so-called ‘democratic’ governments facilitates the insatiability of corporations, banks and stocks-and-shares merchandisers. It is immoral.