Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/11/globalized-corruption.html

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[Papasan]

[Boundegar]

That’s nice. We can’t even address torture, and we’re going to address income inequality?

[anon61833566]

[Keith_McClary]

@doctorow

The US has developed a very extensive set of tools intended to gather information from global economic networks and to use them to prevent actors from engaging in various forms of behavior that the US disapproves of. There is no reason in principle that such tools cannot be employed e.g. to gather information on global tax evasion and to punish financial actors that engage in it.

But then, how would the Empire reward behavior that the US approves of, such as selling out your country to “US interests”?

[DukeTrout]

@Boundegar

We can’t even address torture, and we’re going to address income inequality?

Technically, easier to do if we actually have the will to do it. Therein lies the problem.

[fuzzyfungus]

I suspect that there is broad agreement on the statement that “addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic.”

The question is just what percentage of people who agree mean it in a more “the poor are an essentially alien power whose relations to the polity of real people are those between state adversaries” sense of the phrase. Because it’s definitely nonzero.