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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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there are too many varieties of Americans for me to allow UBI everyone in skandanavia is the same, but if joe bob gets UBI to buy meth and drive tractors off bridges then im gonna revolt.
and id rather we had our funny factions than try to game theory starvation when we have solved with our current system.
People forget that until factory farming starvation was a way bigger epidemic than it is today, but we just refuse to give credit to the empire.
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Well that argument does partially explain
why they started developing as a socialist state. They had a strong working class identity of people exactly like them.
But if your talking like, single payer healthcare and free/cheap college. You can see Russia and all kinds of other countries with a bunch of sectarian violence pull it off.
Russian healthcare sucks. But making it 100% private...basically zero evidence that would help. There's also not a lot of evidence that it sucks because it is single payer. It sucks because Russia is doing it.
And we suck when doing healthcare too. We have good 1st world healthcare here -- so that's not a problem. The problem is not everyone has access to it, and we are paying out the ass for it on a macro level.
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“Healthcare is the tapeworm of the American economy,” Warren Buffett famously told CNBC in 2018, when presenting Haven. Indeed, the size of the market—fueled by costs exponentially higher than in any other country in the world—continues to expand relentlessly, and is projected to make up 20% of America’s GDP by 2028. But the results of this spending are paradoxical: Americans live shorter, less healthy lives than their peers in other countries, while suffering from an epidemic of bankruptcies related to medical issues (an estimated 66.5% of all bankruptcy filings are caused by medical expenses).
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https://qz.com/1952225/why-amazon-be...-haven-failed/
We gave the market a shot. And again, and again..etc
It's not going to work. Single payer is pretty much inevitable. And it will probably be done by a progressive democrat 30-40 years from now when a lot of the current voter base is dead. You're not going to sell the boomer generation in their golden years that their lazy friend they knew in 1973 should get anything. He could have got a good job at any time!