Revolving Door Project senior researchers Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke joined Citations Needed to talk about the so-called Abundance agenda, including how it’s being promoted as an alternative to a downwardly redistributive economic populism.
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As Stancil said: “Today’s Abundance agenda, the one that we see being promoted by Klein, Thompson, and many others, is an attempt to provide a corporate-friendly answer to the electorate’s growing anger at worsening inequality and climate chaos. It’s corporate-friendly because it’s premised on the idea that if we simply freed them from the burdens of the modern regulatory state, benevolent corporations would provide everyone with the necessities of a good life.”
Burke added: “What the broader Abundance agenda is trying to offer is an alternative to the idea of redistribution.”