{"id":95510,"date":"2026-09-07T08:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95510"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:44:35","slug":"the-thuggish-approach-to-human-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/07\/the-thuggish-approach-to-human-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The thuggish approach to human well-being?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and special envoy to the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/world\/israel-acting-little-irrational-on-gaza-due-to-upcoming-election-us-envoy-kushner-in-kyiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said this<\/a> over the weekend:<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-g5y9jx r-6gpygo r-jusfrs\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-8akbws r-krxsd3 r-dnmrzs r-1udbk01 r-1udh08x r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-14gqq1x\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Gaza has not worked for a very, very long time. It was basically built by NGOs and terrorists, and it's been a dystopian place for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-8akbws r-krxsd3 r-dnmrzs r-1udbk01 r-1udh08x r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-14gqq1x\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">\n<p>As author Michael Rosen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelRosenYes\/status\/2096743077041811557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-8akbws r-krxsd3 r-dnmrzs r-1udbk01 r-1udh08x r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-14gqq1x\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">\n<p>This is hardly any different from 19th century British Lords and generals discussing what to do about Sudan, India, or Africa. Every word is predicated on the assumption that it's a westerner's right to talk like this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-8akbws r-krxsd3 r-dnmrzs r-1udbk01 r-1udh08x r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-14gqq1x\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">\n<p>I agree.\u00a0 That is what is happening, and that is the attitude on display.<\/p>\n<p>How come we reached this point?<\/p>\n<p>Has four decades of neoliberalism so degraded our humanity that Kushner and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/07\/spontaneity-can-be-falsely-claimed-once-the-second-time-it-is-organised-intimidation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those blocking refugees from landing at Portsmouth<\/a> share the same thuggish approach to human well-being?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Kushner, Trump&#8217;s son-in-law and special envoy to the Middle East, said this over the weekend: Gaza has not worked for a very, very long<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/07\/the-thuggish-approach-to-human-well-being\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95511,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95510\/revisions\/95511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}