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Wow, just wow. The biggest flaw is ignoring shared biology: the meanest virus/bacteria bred in the deepest helpless squalor of absolute 3rd+ world poverty can a

Wow, just wow. The biggest flaw is ignoring shared biology: the meanest virus/bacteria bred in the deepest helpless squalor of absolute 3rd+ world poverty can and will infect any 1st- world billionaire at the first opportunity. Add climate change and associated vector spread (west-nile, zika,...) and those opportunities multiply. Solidarity may be the optimal approach, even with a pure self-serving outlook.

conanbatt 9y ago
If solidarity does give the best results, there isnt much to promote other than information. People will naturally act on their own behalf.
Sacho 9y ago
The effect is the other way around; diseases like aids, malaria, polio were/are the scourges of the third world, because the poor do not have the means to treat them; the viruses/bacteria in the third world suffer low evolutionary pressure because the humans only fight back with their immune systems. In the first world, we grow super resistant bacteria due to evolutionary pressure from our modern medical treatment. It's the first world that we should fear from a "shared biology" standpoint.
- polotics 9y ago
  Are you sure? Once in Dehli asking for coLd medicines the pharmacy salesman made me a very cheap and very wrong mix of very few antibiotics tabs. Resistant TB is also 3rd-world originated, right? Hep-A in southern Cali is another poor man infects rich man story.
- rbanffy 9y ago
  OTOH, populations that develop imune systems that can deal with their diseases will host deadly stuff for those who rely on external defenses.
averagewall 9y ago
Concentration of wealth is bad because it can't protect the rich from disease? I don't understand your surprise or your point.
- polotics 9y ago
  Concentration to the point of extreme deprivation. It's not that it cannot protect, it's that it actually does harm.
  - averagewall 9y ago
    I still don't understand. Who's being deprived? Poor people in slums breeding diseases? Super rich people not developing immunity? Worries about superbugs can't be the biggest reason people are opposed to high wealth concentration. What's special about the healthcare of billionaires compared to upper middle class Americans? They all use the same drugs, don't they?
closeparen 9y ago
Hmm. Most people claiming to oppose inequality list globalization and immigration as top causes. This does not smell of concern for the well being of the 3rd world.

conanbatt 9y ago

If solidarity does give the best results, there isnt much to promote other than information. People will naturally act on their own behalf.

Sacho 9y ago

The effect is the other way around; diseases like aids, malaria, polio were/are the scourges of the third world, because the poor do not have the means to treat them; the viruses/bacteria in the third world suffer low evolutionary pressure because the humans only fight back with their immune systems. In the first world, we grow super resistant bacteria due to evolutionary pressure from our modern medical treatment. It's the first world that we should fear from a "shared biology" standpoint.

polotics 9y ago
Are you sure? Once in Dehli asking for coLd medicines the pharmacy salesman made me a very cheap and very wrong mix of very few antibiotics tabs. Resistant TB is also 3rd-world originated, right? Hep-A in southern Cali is another poor man infects rich man story.
rbanffy 9y ago
OTOH, populations that develop imune systems that can deal with their diseases will host deadly stuff for those who rely on external defenses.

averagewall 9y ago

Concentration of wealth is bad because it can't protect the rich from disease? I don't understand your surprise or your point.

polotics 9y ago
Concentration to the point of extreme deprivation. It's not that it cannot protect, it's that it actually does harm.
- averagewall 9y ago
  I still don't understand. Who's being deprived? Poor people in slums breeding diseases? Super rich people not developing immunity? Worries about superbugs can't be the biggest reason people are opposed to high wealth concentration. What's special about the healthcare of billionaires compared to upper middle class Americans? They all use the same drugs, don't they?

closeparen 9y ago

Hmm. Most people claiming to oppose inequality list globalization and immigration as top causes. This does not smell of concern for the well being of the 3rd world.