RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117200949334762189
"Your kids aren't your property. In fact, all the most important relationships in your life are non-market. Doctors have patients, not customers. Any time a doctor calls you a "customer" they are demoting you. A doctor doesn't sell you health. You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these" - @pluralistic
After half a century of neoliberalism, we are all drenched in capitalism's established religion, the worship of property rights.
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