Episode 163 - FREEDOM & FAIRNESS: Our democracy's deep troubles can't be solved by fetishising markets

In this edition of In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser, I reflect
on both Freedom Day and Worker's Day. 
I spend some time arguing that my generation and those of you who
are younger shouldn't be ahistorical and glib about the
achievements of those who came before us.

That said, we have to be rigorous in our conceptualisation of
'freedom': what precisely is it? Unless we do some definitional
work, we can't mind the empirical gap between the normative
vision of the constitution and our present social
un/realities. 

I end this edition by weaving all of that material, in turn, into
a set of reflections on the moral limits of markets. If we want
our democracy to flourish, and for all of us to realise our
potential, then there is simply no room for the fantasy that
questions of fairness or justice can be settled with deference to
economic markets. There is no point in pitting the exploited
worker against the unemployed.

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