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Cuomo is letting billionaires plan New York's future. It doesn't have to be this way
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: May 31st, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/14/andrew...
Last week, New Yorks governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that Bill Gates would be responsible for reimagining New Yorks education system. Cuomo also asked former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to lead a panel planning New Yorks post-Covid tech infrastructure. As Naomi Klein writes, the appointments of Schmidt and Gates represent a Pandemic Shock Doctrine ... that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up [and] treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent and highly profitable no-touch future. Schmidts vision of the future is ... mass surveillance plus public investment in companies in which he has a stake. Even if Schmidt and Gates had good policies, Cuomos knighting of them is offensive to American self-government. Nobody voted for them and they are accountable to no one. Cuomo ... is simply allowing billionaires to plan our future directly, taking out the middlemen. Cuomo anointed these tsars at the exact same time that he took vast new powers away from the state legislature, which has not been holding regular legislative hearings since 1 April. Coronavirus has created a constitutional crisis of sorts, one where the rules of representation, power and decision-making are up for grabs. Monopolists are seizing power and market share for themselves, setting themselves up as the arbiters of our collective futures.
Note: For more, see this revealing article by Naomi Klein in the Intercept. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.
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