[Comment] On the WEIRDo neoliberal policies that protect free markets over the planet and its people

Criticising the idea that “every culture is as good as any other”, Friedrich Hayek observed in an interview from 1978 that if we do not “create and maintain” a “market society” but “destroy” it, “then two-thirds of the present population of the world will be destined to die” (p 173).1 His position is reflective of the intellectual origins of the corporate-backed neoliberal crusade predominantly attached to the creation of The Mont Pelerin Society in 1947.2 One of the goals of the Society was to protect western civilisation against socialism (and later, environmentalism) and to promote economic freedom, individualism, and industrial capitalism.