@Geri Who knew that privatising basic, essential services like water, electricity, gas, rubbish collection, mail, defense research, airports, rail and healthcare would lead to shitty, expensive service at the same time as enriching the shareholders and executives? 
I'm sure I've missed some out.
Literally every single one of these privatised (or nearly-privatised) services in UK is now a total crock of expensive shit.
Good article from The Walrus. I am a subscriber and if you can they could use donations subscribers etc.
https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/
Anybody following UK news at the moment will know that the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury is under pressure to resign following a report describing church inaction over John Smyth's years of sadistic child abuse.
This scandal, however, should not be considered as
solely of concern to the Church of England. As this article makes clear, Smyth was a major figure in the 1970s crusade by British social conservatives against "the permissive society", a crusade which helped prepare the way for the triumph of Margaret Thatcher and her melding of "Victorian values" with militant neoliberalism.
Smyth's story is more than the history of one depraved individual. It calls for further investigation into his shielding and consideration of the ideological roots of rightwingers' readiness to close their eyes to such horrors.
John Smyth: the go-to barrister for Mary Whitehouse | Christianity | The Guardian
AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
"Real AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. Like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. Case after case, from Australia to the Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor. AI doesn't provide insights as it's just a giant statistical guessing game. What it does do is amplify thoughtlessness, a lack of care, and a distancing from actual consequences. The logics of ranking and superiority are buried deep in the make up of artificial intelligence; married to populist politics, it becomes another vector for deciding who is disposable."
