"In real life, we’re a nation of middle men and corporate toll collectors, where health insurers get 20 cents on the dollar for services done everywhere else for a nickel or less; where big banks shun small business while raking in merger fees and taking a cut of every purchase charged to a credit card; where Comcast’s pipeline is worth more than NBC’s oil; where Google gorges on ad revenues that once supported world-class journalism. ***We’re about cartels, not startups, not bound to the future but mortgaged to the past.***"

Neoliberals are killing us: The TED talk, techno-utopian, Thomas Friedman-economy is a lie