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beezneez  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: INCOMING RACISM RANT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#Corrupted_neoliberalism Not all members of a society may have equal access to the law or to information, even when everyone is theoretically equal under the law, as in a liberal democracy. This is because access to the law and information is not free as liberals (such as Hayek) assume, but have associated costs. Therefore, in this context, it is sound to say that the wealthy have greater rights than the poor.

In some cases, the poor may have practically no rights at all if their income falls below the levels necessary to access the law and unbiased sources of information, while the very wealthy may have the ability to choose which rights and responsibilities they bear if they can move themselves and their property internationally, resulting in social stratification, also known as class. This alleged tendency to create and strengthen class has resulted in some (most famously David Harvey[70]) claiming that neoliberalism is a class project, designed to impose class on society through liberalism.