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Sounds reasonable in isolation but you can pretty much apply this line of thinking to all of capitalism. Health insurance can be divided into the healthy-young
by xster 9y ago
Sounds reasonable in isolation but you can pretty much apply this line of thinking to all of capitalism.
Health insurance can be divided into the healthy-young-professional-who-pay-premium-and-never-get-sick package and the old-sick-people-costing-us-money package. Now one group is subsidizing the other and the premium the sick people package would have paid is so shit it makes the current premium look like winning the lottery. What to do? Drop the weakest performers.
Airlines make most of their money from first class which is essentially subsidizing all coach tickets? What to do? Just get rid of the average rider.
Politician X spent 1.2B$ campaigning for presidency and most of that money didn't come from private citizens? Now you have a rich voter coalition and a normal citizen coalition and the new normal citizens' influence on politicians would be so shit that the current resemblance to democracy start to look like normal citizens winning the lottery. What to do? Just get rid of universal suffrage.