Max was earning more as a dishwasher in Australia than as a university-qualified environmental monitoring technician back home in New Zealand. He is among a record number of people leaving the country.
Ultimately, Obama did a perfect job executing neoliberalism. And by demonstrating the outcomes of neoliberalism when perfectly executed, I think he also executed neoliberalism in the other meaning.
Yeah, it must be quite jarring to go from this badass
to Kiwi Trump in just a couple years!
Similar to the US going from Obama to Trump in 2016. Left got complacent, while the right stoked fear with lies and propaganda.
Obama was not a badass, he was a charismatic young illegal drone striking war criminal who reversed course on several key campaign promises.
He wasn’t Trump, but he wasn’t a leftist workers hero, you deserve and should demand better than Democrats.
Everyone wants to remember the hope and change, no one wants to remember the extrajudicial killing of Americans.
Also, there was a lot more hope than change.
Ultimately, Obama did a perfect job executing neoliberalism. And by demonstrating the outcomes of neoliberalism when perfectly executed, I think he also executed neoliberalism in the other meaning.