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On Fairness

Book by Sally McManus · 3 quotes · Neoliberalism, Union Movement, Workers Rights

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“Rapid growth in wealth inequality results in the inevitable isolation of a very small, very rich, very privileged section of the community from the material experiences of everyone else. And when this out-of-touch minority group is enfranchised to make the decisions on behalf of people they don't know, can't see, have no wish to understand, and think of entirely in dehumanised, transactional, abstract terms, the results for the rest of us are devastating.”

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“You don't fix unfairness with more unfairness; you don't get a fair go by denying one to someone else. You get a fair go by organising; by standing alongside everyone else who's in the same situation and insisting on rules that ensure fairness.”

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“There's now a worldwide industry of companies that offer rewards to political actors - politicians, lobbyist, think-tanks, activists - who show greater loyalty to maximising corporate profits than they do to principles of equality, let alone the public good. It's parasitic capitalism, and it's the economic model that the opponents of fairness prefer.”

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