King Lobster’s economic agenda is not about deregulation—it’s about dismantling the state itself. The article draws from Thatcher’s austerity program and Russia’s kleptocratic privatization of the 1990s. The plan is to turn public goods—parks, post offices, health care—into profit machines for monopolists.
GDP would be redefined to IGNORE the shrinking public sector, while natural resources like water and power are handed over to financiers. Citizen rights become subservient to shareholder returns. The technological, political and economic order is collapsing and these edicts and antics ignore them.
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