Where are the Flying Cars?

Why don't we have a colony on the moon, faster airplanes, and a cure for the common cold?

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Given a choice between a course of action that would make capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and one that would transform capitalism into a viable, long-term economic system, neoliberalism chooses the former every time. There is every reason to believe that destroying job security while increasing working hours does no…