Wednesday, 25 March 2020
"Generous" Amazon to supply Coronavirus test kits
A no-brainer for Amazon. But for the rest of us? Even if the kits are made free, Amazon is still using a healthcare crisis to boost its image in the minds of many and to further erode whatever distinction still exists for those minds in our neoliberal times between public and private interests. Is this not an example of the private sector gallantly jumping in to fill a critical societal gap? Only if we ignore the private sector's continuing and persistent anti-tax crusade that leads to inadequate provision of societal necessities in the first place. If Amazon and other coporations want to do the right thing in this crisis they should make anonymous donations or lobby for higher taxes or larger current account deficits to pay for necessary supplies out of public resources. Public healthcare supplied by means of "generous" private interests is not public at all. In the long run it will not be for the common good and certainly not for the common "better" as sought by TorontotheBetter. .
# posted by Taodhg @ 4:18 pm 
