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while Speers is #ScottySplaining how the Liberals like forcibly commodifying the time and energy of low income people [paraphrased], the signal word is job. Look at how Morrison treats workers, including unemployed workers. He construes us as jobs ie labour, which he hates.
compare his treatment of low income casualised and unemployed workers to their deep and abiding and very expensive commitments to high income non-unionised business owners who are or were blue collar workers and live in swing seats.
at no point has Scott Morrison delivered clear messaging let alone national leadership on who are essential workers, nor has he responded to the fact that a huge proportion of the paid workforce is precariously employed via casualisation, gig and labour hire, subcontracting etc.
and the public discourse, from politicians to journalists to expert analysts and commentators - and the screeching murdoch misinformation machine - is completely dominated by securely employed people whose worldview is largely consistent with neo/liberal ideology.
[from my replies, edited] I used to say socio-temporal context is the main/only difference between neo- and classical liberalism. It took me a while to catch on to a key *characteristic* differential, which is elites weaponising anti/intellectualism.
by which I mean Mill used the intellectual traditions of his class to rationalise the horrors of industrial capitalism; neoliberal elites like Morrison weaponise anti-intellectualism to rationalise the horrors of his “digital poorhouse” policies.
example of an elite neoliberal weaponising anti-intellectualism here. Hawke lives extremely comfortably on the public purse, paid to “represent” an enormously wealthy and very white electorate in the Australian parliament, spends his days on self-serving careerism.
anyway the point is that Morrison has prioritised political objectives from day one and the enormous cost of his poor leadership, his nasty greedy self-serving ideology - in public health *and therefore economic* terms - is extremely clear to anyone who is looking.
one reason I am posting all this tonight is it seems likely that tomorrow - when the treasurer delivers a campaign speech dressed up as economic update statement or some shit - the news may be dominated by an announcement of income tax cuts. Would love to be wrong on that.
