@bodhipaksa @benroyce @JugglingWithEggs
#StateCapture is a #neoliberal thing, designed to redistribute wealth to the top earners and promoting the ridiculous idea of trickle-down economics. A few get richer and the rest of us fight over crumbs. It also champions #SmallGovernment a la #Libertarian ideology (aka. Fuck you, I’m alright Jack).

As another comment mentions, there are not-for-profit health funds (we have them in #Australia as well), but you should check out the remuneration of its CEOs, COOs, etc… as well as the contracts they have in place with service providers (who are also in it to make a buck).

The only socially responsible Health system worth striving for is a #PublicHealthSystem funded and administered by govt for the people, for all people equally. Period

The Australian #Medicare system isn’t perfect (because neoliberals like to chip away at it whenever the chance presents), but it sure is better than any other I’ve come across.

Making a profit from the suffering of others is #unconscionable, #immoral, #inhuman, #corrupt, and frankly disgusting IMO.

@amyremeikis.bsky.social
#TaxTheRich instead. Close #TaxLoopHoles. Massively increase #PRRT. Renounce #StateCapture. Cap #CEORemuneration. Break up #Monopolies

Good gracious, our Govt is ‘owned’! By #CorporateAustralia
#AusPol

@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.

I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.

@lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope good work, trying to prevent #statecapture

The Dictatorship of the Engineer:
The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-doge-engineers/681580/

"Elon Musk is dismantling the civil service and fulfilling an old dream... a yearning for a savior... This is a fantasy of submission...

even as the right purports to loathe #technocracy, it has empowered an engineer to radically remake the #American state"