Like,
" that means opposition from the wealthy and powerful, who the abundance crowd are usually so unwilling to target."
buddy, the "wealthy and powerful" are the people the abundance message is specifically targeting, saying to them "it's possible for you to make more money by building houses than by not building them", "new power plants and refurbished infrastructure will require large construction contracts and you can make money from that".
That bit about "a useful idiot for the right" is the reason so much stuff proposed by the left never goes anywhere, because they're worried about giving any impression of any kind that The Right was correct about literally anything, even in the tiniest imaginable way.
That essay has rather more than most of Freddie's work of "thinking that he can justify his aesthetic distaste for Centrist Liberals as Actually Objective Moral Judgement if he throws enough words at the problem".
Saying "abundance" in a nose-wrinkled tone has become very popular among the Online Left, and it's very clear that it's not really about any problem they have with the idea and more about a new way to...well, to signal ingroup allegiance, as it were.
I mean, the only place they might find to criticize it is that it suggests you can get Capitalism to produce desirable results, versus smashing Capitalism And Also The State.
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bro we're not asking for "all children to be above average", we're asking for "all children to be able to pass a basic skills test."
Like,
" that means opposition from the wealthy and powerful, who the abundance crowd are usually so unwilling to target."
buddy, the "wealthy and powerful" are the people the abundance message is specifically targeting, saying to them "it's possible for you to make more money by building houses than by not building them", "new power plants and refurbished infrastructure will require large construction contracts and you can make money from that".
That bit about "a useful idiot for the right" is the reason so much stuff proposed by the left never goes anywhere, because they're worried about giving any impression of any kind that The Right was correct about literally anything, even in the tiniest imaginable way.
That essay has rather more than most of Freddie's work of "thinking that he can justify his aesthetic distaste for Centrist Liberals as Actually Objective Moral Judgement if he throws enough words at the problem".
Saying "abundance" in a nose-wrinkled tone has become very popular among the Online Left, and it's very clear that it's not really about any problem they have with the idea and more about a new way to...well, to signal ingroup allegiance, as it were.
I mean, the only place they might find to criticize it is that it suggests you can get Capitalism to produce desirable results, versus smashing Capitalism And Also The State.