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But why, there are already more than enough ways to kill people. And yet somehow sane and affordable healthcare is out of reach.

• phendrenad2 8y ago
  To be fair, coming up with new weapons is a lot simpler than fixing the world's healthcare systems.
  • l0b0 8y ago
    In what sense? In the "we have the technology, medicine and money for people to live healthy well into their seventies but we choose to spend it on doomsday machines instead" sense? In the "our armed forces are now so well-equipped and well-funded they would simply take over if we tried to cut funding to reasonable levels" sense? In the "everybody else is an enemy" sense? What a lot of nonsense.
    • phendrenad2 8y ago
      I meant in the "give billions of dollars to weapon manufacturers and they'll keep inventing crazy shit, but you can't even begin to enumerate the number of organizations and agencies you'd have to give funding to in order to effect change in our systemically flawed healthcare status quo" sense. In other words, it's a complexity problem. It's easy to take money, throw it at a defense contractor, and get weapons out the other end. But to change healthcare, thousands of laws would have to be changed, and hundreds of government agencies would have to change their daily operations. And politicians would use the change to polarize their voter base. What we need is to educate the younger generations on the benefits of universal healthcare, show them how it's the inevitable way of the future, and eventually they'll get into office and do the hard work of making the necessary changes. It may take generations.
• panarky 8y ago
  This way you can kill a lot of people without irradiating the territory or the atmosphere.