In the previous post of this series, I wrote about how all of the negative socio-economic changes caused by neoliberalism in the public sphere (highly inflated cost of education and housing, decrease in job security, lack of well- funded pensions etc) in combination with a simultaneous negative changes in the personal sphere (large increases in single parenthood, persistently high divorce rates and a general increase in social atomization) undermine many of the basic assumptions which underlie the current system in western countries.