---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Farsam Shadab <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:18 PM Subject: Neoliberals are killing us: The TED talk, techno-utopian, Thomas Friedman-economy is a lie "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 lieApril 28, 2015 12:58 PM | BILL CURRY View full article at Salon.com <http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/neoliberals_are_killing_us_the_ted_talk_techno_utopian_thomas_friedman_economy_is_a_lie/> Sent from my iPhone -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/