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Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty – John Kampfner

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Why is it that so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for either security or prosperity? For the past 60 years it had been assumed that capitalism was intertwined with liberal democracy, that the two not just thrived together but needed each other to survive. But what happens when both are undermined? Governments around the world — whether they fall into the authoritarian or the democratic camp — have drawn up a new pact with their peoples. These are its terms: repression is selective, confined to those who openly challenge the status quo, who publicly go out of their way to ’cause trouble’. The number of people who fall into that category is actually very few. The rest of the population can enjoy freedom to travel, to live more or less as they …