The new thing is that capitalists are liberated from oppression like having to pay taxes.

What if we take the small gains workers made that let them retire in their fifties, fuck them into the dumpster, tell the peasants to work until they die, and give the money to the oligarchy instead?

Neoliberalism greatly expanded the dominance of market forces through deregulation, privatization, and regressive forms of taxation, while significantly reducing the state’s role in the economy through cuts to labor, welfare, and social protections.

Behind these economic reforms sat a new idea of what constitutes a good and free society—a concept about what direction we should all be striving in to become the best versions of ourselves. In the new neoliberal era, then, success would be reframed as a product of having exceptional individual qualities (rather than exceptional social privileges and advantages), while failure would be rooted in some kind of personal deficit (rather than in lack of opportunity, equality, or social support).

That is some gourmet deep-fried shit.

But if you’re super rich, you get to spend your money as you please, and you basically get to do what you want.