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Health and safety typically increase in response to workers advocating for additional health and safety. Those increases were won in spite of the system not bec
by jadedhacker 9y ago
Health and safety typically increase in response to workers advocating for additional health and safety. Those increases were won in spite of the system not because of it.
Noam Chomsky makes the following point: Slave societies also exhibited improvements over time. It wasn't an argument for slavery.
- twoodfin 9y agoSure, but comparing the virtual slave state of North Korea with the prosperity of South Korea is a pretty good argument for freedom and against slavery. Do you have some examples of societies that radically increased their overall health and safety without adopting liberal economic policies? Cuba, maybe?
- jadedhacker 9y agoThis is a very reasonable question, but I think this is too off topic from this article to comply with HN's guidelines as it verges on more general questions. The latest issue of Jacobin does compare the Cuban health system to the US health system and to the Dominican Republic if you're interested, but it's print/subscriber only. SK and NK are too complex to be analyzed under these textual constraints.