Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

The Alston report is the most serious challenge yet to poverty triumphalism, to the political apologias that it has supported, and to the fiction that economies of massive inequality are destroying poverty rather than destroying the poor. @unitetheooor x.com/thebafflermag/status/1333762787223461890

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Quoted by@EllsburyNyy @ianbremmer Bunk.Quoted by@moshik_temkin This sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994.Quoted byThis sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994. Image: World Inequality Report 2022 @UniteThePoorQuoted by@olliewaters @jasonhickel