the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses.

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Look, I'm not doing this for bants and likes, which seems to put me at odds with most of the political culture these days. This issue literally keeps me awake at night. How the hell do we get government - which exists above all to protect us from harm - to wake up to the scale of this threat?

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Just as we've seen with both climate breakdown and Covid-19, neoliberalism has tied governments hand and foot. It ensures that their response in most cases is not commensurate with the scale of the crisis. An ideology almost perfectly mismatched to public need. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455534...

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In fact the entire food system has moved from warehousing towards logistics, creating a global just-in-time model that helps destabilise the system and will greatly accelerate any collapse. All the more reason for government intervention. But neoliberalism has made intervention taboo.

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Instead, not only does the government individuate responsibility for a systemic problem, but successive governments have also privatised the response. They've relied on supermarket warehousing to fill any gaps. But the supermarkets don't do that any more. They've switched from stocks to flows.

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