Thread by @21Fulcrum

Neoliberalism blames individuals for poverty - hiding its manufacture by political choices. ML does a lot of good but still built a £123m career off that ideology.
He finally breaks his (very political) "apolitical" rule & the Left paints him as a working class anti-hero.
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https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1507466704552558595

He's helped people (myself included). If he'd same career while using his platform to challenge narrative that poverty is about poor money management that'd be fine but he had a material stake in the neoliberal narrative. Profiting millions off that is quite uncomfortable.
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There's an industry built around this. All the upcycling TV shows (good in itself but not when branded as a poverty solution). All the nutrition shows that use participants to show how easily the middle classes can switch consumption, shaming how others feed their kids.
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Is this different from the "stop being poor" / "everyone has the same 24 hours"?
Is it much better than poverty porn, benefits scroungers shows or "broken Britain"? The demonisation of the working class - too feckless to work, to stupid to spend properly. @OwenJones84
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Yes, people like Martin Lewis have helped people in an immediate sense. But after decades of being "apolitical" & disguising the root causes of a system their career relies on can they so easily be accepted with open arms by those who campaign so hard against poverty?
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