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Notes on ageism, Pt. I: You can’t have capitalism without ageism

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Notes on ageism, Pt. I: You can’t have capitalism without ageism

Jun 28, 2016
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Even the most radical capitalists typically* accept equality of opportunity as a prerequisite of social justice. It’s the form of egalitarianism that reactionaries are generally okay with, because it’s mostly hypothetical – to be distinguished from “equality of outcomes”, EG substantive equality. Thus no less a seminal capitalist than Milton Friedman in…

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