Ash Sarkar
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right · 4 Aug 2026
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And the relationship, the relationship between those who own stuff and those who don't own stuff, the people who don't own stuff being extracted from in the form of rent, that is not a relation of free individuals.
So let's take, for example, housing.
My best mate, who lives around the corner from me, just got hit with a £600 hike in his rent.
And of course, he's free to reject that.
He's free to tell the landlord where to go.
He's free to move out, upend his life, quit his job, break up with his girlfriend, leave all his friends and his family who live nearby.
He's perfectly free to do all those things.
But what kind of freedom is that?
The extracting of rent, whether it's from tenants like my friend or from the private companies who own our infrastructure, it's dependent on a coercive relation because you need the housing.
You need the water.
You need the energy.
You need the transport.
And so when you need and the others have, there is no real competition between landlords or the landlord class in the marketplace.
There is only naked class interest.
The great defense of neoliberalism, which I'm sure we'll hear, is that it alleviates poverty worldwide.
And of course, there's truth in that.
But it has also seen the rise of deeply unequal societies lacking in shared purpose and lacking in evenly distributed increases in the standard of living.
Right now, tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh who liberals would have praised themselves for lifting out of poverty in the 1990s
are out on strike.
Why?
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