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[[Category:Thomas Frank]]
[[Category:Capitalists are not your friends.]]
[[Category:Wall Street, Corporatists, Neoliberals And Plutocrats]]
[[Category:Capitalism, Markets and Laissez-Faire]]
[[Category:Market Fundamentalism]]
[[Category:Class War]]
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| text = The market is a god that sucks. Yes, it cashed a few out at the tippy top, piled up the loot of the world at their feet, delivered shiny Lexuses into the driveways of their ten-bedroom suburban chateaux. But for the rest of us, the very principles that make the market the object of D’Souza’s worship, of Gilder’s awestruck piety, are the forces that conspire to make life shitty in a million ways great and small. The market is the reason our housing is so expensive. It is the reason our public transportation is lousy. It is the reason our cities sprawl idiotically all across the map. It is the reason our word processing programs stink and our prescription drugs cost more than anywhere else. In order that a fortunate few might enjoy a kind of prosperity unequaled in human history, the rest of us have had to abandon ourselves to a lifetime of casual employment, to unquestioning obedience within an ever more arbitrary and despotic corporate regime, to medical care available on a maybe/maybe-not basis, to a housing market interested in catering only to the fortunate.
| cite = [[Thomas Frank]], "{{Link |The God That Sucked}}"
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