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Another way to think about it is, your country suddenly finds itself with an additional, disposable 7% GDP. Alternatively you can afford extra ~40% health cover

• afarrell 9y ago
  Except this isn't Age of Empires. That "7% GDP" is a bunch of unemployed people who have the potential to do useful things, but some-to-most their skills are geared toward navigating an inefficient system that doesn't exist anymore. Some will be able to easily re-apply those skills. Some won't. Even the ones that will are going to be scared of the transition because losing your job is scary. Of course, much of this would be offset by setting up services like the UK's 111 (medical advice hotline) and by being employed by companies like the one my sysadmin-for-the-federal-government father has always wanted to start but can't in case his cancer comes back. But those are both much more abstract and distant hypotheticals that don't yet have voters behind them.