Do you guys think Sachs is getting better, or is he just a more effective global capitalist? As in, he facilitated and personally was involved with the total destruction and looting of the Post-Soviet economy, which was such a disaster for the workers of Russia that life expectancy fell to a degree only seen in war time . But more recently he has been oddly pro China, going as far as writing an article himself straight up saying there is not a genocide in Xinjiang. That I could get, yeah a shade of capitalists win big with cooperation and with China. Then he makes waves saying covid could have been from the US. Then he is very open saying Russia was provoked into intervention in Ukraine.
I can’t tell if he is genuinely getting better or if he just sees this as a path to enabling the most exploitation in favor of the west. Can’t exploit Chinese workers when the countries are at war.
He has some books that outline that he falls pretty firmly into the social-democratic camp nowadays. I don’t know if he’s ever owned up to his mistakes, but I know he views China’s opening up and reform period as basically what he was going for and that they did it better. He likes Sanders.
He also has some perhaps cold but realistic examinations of “sweatshops” in the global south, claiming they’ve been put into a position of such extreme poverty that they become nearly mandatory for those nations to adopt before they can begin socializing aspects of the economy and making better lives for workers. Not claiming he’s correct or incorrect, just his line.
He was also on the Netflix “Explained” episode on billionaires and had some pretty good things to say.
Do you guys think Sachs is getting better, or is he just a more effective global capitalist? As in, he facilitated and personally was involved with the total destruction and looting of the Post-Soviet economy, which was such a disaster for the workers of Russia that life expectancy fell to a degree only seen in war time . But more recently he has been oddly pro China, going as far as writing an article himself straight up saying there is not a genocide in Xinjiang. That I could get, yeah a shade of capitalists win big with cooperation and with China. Then he makes waves saying covid could have been from the US. Then he is very open saying Russia was provoked into intervention in Ukraine.
I can’t tell if he is genuinely getting better or if he just sees this as a path to enabling the most exploitation in favor of the west. Can’t exploit Chinese workers when the countries are at war.
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He has some books that outline that he falls pretty firmly into the social-democratic camp nowadays. I don’t know if he’s ever owned up to his mistakes, but I know he views China’s opening up and reform period as basically what he was going for and that they did it better. He likes Sanders.
He also has some perhaps cold but realistic examinations of “sweatshops” in the global south, claiming they’ve been put into a position of such extreme poverty that they become nearly mandatory for those nations to adopt before they can begin socializing aspects of the economy and making better lives for workers. Not claiming he’s correct or incorrect, just his line.
He was also on the Netflix “Explained” episode on billionaires and had some pretty good things to say.