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> Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system Depending on how the debt situation falls out, we might already have that. :-\
by danaliv 9y ago
> Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system
Depending on how the debt situation falls out, we might already have that. :-\
- InitialLastName 9y agoYou're being sardonic, but socialism-by-bailout seems like an interesting experiment. Next, we automatically bail out everyone with medical debt -> universal healthcare!
- berbec 9y agoI detected slight sarcasm, but you may be more right than you know. We'll see in 3 years, or less (please)
- InitialLastName 9y agoNo sarcasm. I suspect this kind of bureaucratic sideloading might be the only way to get these changes done. One further: if the Fed starts an index fund and distributes the dividends equally to the American people, do we suddenly have UBI tied to the national GDP? If that index fund gets large enough that it owns a significant portion of the economy, do we have distributed control of the means of production?
- ionised 9y agoWe already had that when the banks were bailed out. Socialise the losses, privatise the profits.