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It sounds like you are projecting your own situation onto an entire generation, completely ignoring the statistics. You aren't richer for having available a re
by woodman 11y ago
It 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.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoSocial security is not a good or service, it's money. You can't consume money. Also, we consume more healthcare today. Also, sarcasm doesn't mean what you think it means. So no, you haven't named a good or service that we consume less of today.
- woodman 11y ago> Social security is not a good or service, it's money. I'd agree if it were a self funding program, but it isn't. Due to the ever increasing deficit, scarcity increases with consumption - the earlier generations are paying less and drawing more than later generations. > Also, we consume more healthcare today. That is news to me - and probobly the entire health insurance industry, how did you arrive at that conclusion? > Also, sarcasm doesn't mean what you think it means. I made my point, being aware of my point you stated the opposite in a ridiculing manner: that is the very definition of sarcasm. It doesn't need to be a sassy remark made with an eye-roll and accompanied by a laugh track to be sarcasm.
- SamReidHughes 11y ago> That is news to me - and probobly the entire health insurance industry, how did you arrive at that conclusion? Take any illness you might get and look at the outcome 40 years ago versus today. Look at the maintenance treatments people make for vision, dentistry, and orthodontics. > I made my point, being aware of my point you stated the opposite in a ridiculing manner: that is the very definition of sarcasm. That's not the definition of sarcasm.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoWould you give up every treatment not on the market in 1970 if you could pay 1970s prices for healthcare? How many people do you think would?