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Without cash in a market society, you’re free to do nothing, to have very little and to die young. In other words, under capitalism, *money is the right to have rights*. The deepest irony is that the spread of the empire of prices is said to be compatible with freedom. Yet the freedoms that the free market offers are illusions. For the poor, the price of decent food, of health care, of Social Security, of housing are all substantially beyond reach. The gap between what people earn and the cost of their freedoms means that, for more and more Americans, freedom is just another word for nothing they can afford. Raj Patel, THE VALUE OF NOTHING: How to reshape market society and redefine democracy (Picador ⓒ 2009) pp. 112-3
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:45:49 +0000

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