Next, regarding Paul Mason: He astutely observed that the breakdown in the ECB and EC negotiations with elected Eurogroup finance ministers, about Greece, was due to democracy. https://twitter.com/EllieAsksWhy/status/615348570619838464
I read the excerpt of Paul Mason’s ‘Post-Capitalism’ too. I was not as impressed by that. In fact, economists and many others HAVE noticed “parallel currencies, time banks, cooperatives and self-managed spaces”. Yes, the so-called sharing economy and freelance workforce has grown out of of the shattering of the old structures in the post-2008 crisis. The bleak future for college graduates and skilled tradesman, now with careers as day laborers/piece workers (e.g. Task Rabbits or Uber drivers), hired by the minute by the elite beneficiaries of globalization, is due to the shattering of the GOOD structures that existed prior to 2008. Many of the old, bad structures, such as weakened manufacturing and unions while GDP was concentrated increasingly in the financial industry, have survived post-2008. Reforms have been minimal.