The Hacksworth reading was an insightful and detailed description of neo-liberalism, it’s development and ideological specificities, and more importantly the potentially disastrous role it is playing in the way in which our legislation is currently dealing with housing. The foundations of this form of thought seem to be conducive to an environment in which the standard quality of life of tenants is habitually sacrificed. This philosophy is based around an individual’s responsibility to provide for themselves, which is easily twisted into being a rationalization for the abuse of ownership and financial power. That is the overall gist I extracted from the reading, however I became lost in a lot of the minutia and jargon which unfortunately resulted in a lot of the examples flying right over my head. I became especially lost when comparisons and contrasts were being made between neoliberalism and its various philosophical counterpoints, more notably neo-conservatism. It seemed to me like a lot of time was spent stretching these comparisons without enough of a clear singular definition of certain terms in order to contextualize the arguments.

Question- What is the solution to the neo-liberal tendencies within our system? How do we avoid it as a society?