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> ... it should be easy to name a good or service that we consume less of than them. Anyone care to do that? Social Security and health care come to mind.
by woodman 11y ago
> ... it should be easy to name a good or service that we consume less of than them. Anyone care to do that?
Social Security and health care come to mind.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoSocial security is not a good. Neither is health care - its a category. Did you mean "the basket of health care goods available in 1970"? I imagine we consume far more than that (e.g., MRIs, statins, etc). Would you be willing to stick to your parents health care choices?
- cryoshon 11y agoYou're missing the part where people actively avoid going to the doctor unless they're super sick/injured because the doctor is too expensive, even with insurance. The paradigm of consumption of medical services has changed: the doctor will not permit you to visit them, and then not get referred for tests XYZ and drugs ABC; it would be negligent for the doctor to not provide the standard of care to the patient, and the standard of care is immensely expensive relative to yesteryear. Was medical bankruptcy a thing in the 1970s?
- woodman 11y ago> Social security is not a good. Neither is health care - its a category. Allow me to quote myself, quoting you: "name a good or service". > Would you be willing to stick to your parents health care choices? Do you mean the health care choices they are exercising now? Who do you think is racking up the most MRI hours, 20 year olds or 60 year olds? I'll put a finer point on it, both services are subsidized by the increasingly resentful youth.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoAt 30, will you stick to health care invented when your parents were 30? Again - MRI is a service. Health care is a category.
- woodman 11y ago> At 30, will you stick to health care invented when your parents were 30? Why would I, why would they? The issue at hand is cost; they pay much less than I do to utilize the same services due to now legally mandated insurance. > Again - MRI is a service. Health care is a category. Again... the health care industry is comprised of both services and goods, the unequal consumption of which is what you challenged anybody to point to.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoThe question is whether you are richer than your parents at the same age. If you have more goods and services (including all those cool medical techs that didn't exist when they were 30), you are richer. I certainly am - in 1980 I'd probably be a cripple. In 2014, cheap airline fares + modern medicine fixed me up for a few thousand.
- woodman 11y agoIt sounds like you are projecting your own situation onto an entire generation, completely ignoring the statistics. You aren't richer for having available a resource that you don't need but you are still made to pay for. That is the situation for the vast majority of young people. It is a very screwed up situation where the least able are made to pay the greater part.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoI note that you still haven't named a good or service that we consume less of.
- woodman 11y agoYou've either somehow overlooked the two I initially named - one of which has been actively discussed, or you disagree and have decided to make a sarcastic remark instead of offering a counter argument.