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I'll stop, though it would be preferable if we could have discussions around topics, rather than just banning them. After living and working in the US, and Can

by grecy 6y ago

I'll stop, though it would be preferable if we could have discussions around topics, rather than just banning them. After living and working in the US, and Canada, and Australia, I genuinely don't understand why the US can't learn from other countries to improve itself. Honestly, I'm not trying to post flamebait, I simply don't understand, and I've never heard a good explanation. My friends here in Canadian healthcare regularly compare and contrast the system to Australia/UK/Scandanavian systems and point out the pros and cons and how the Canadian system is adopting ideas/techniques from other places that have seen good outcomes. Other countries do this regularly. Honestly - why doesn't the US? EDIT: And here I am criticizing Canada (the country I live in, and hope to become a citizen of) just a minute ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972362 I believe criticism and pointing out problems/weak points is the first step to improving a situation - after all, there can be no improvement until a problem is acknowledged. The very fact this article and thread exist suggests there is some kind of problem / or something can be improved upon with regards to paid employment.

rhino369 6y ago
Don't plenty of countries in the EU have higher poverty rates than the USA? Isn't Australia's essentially the same as the USAs? Is there really a huge difference or are you just subject to a lot of confirmation bias. Canada and Australia are far from solving poverty.
maxerickson 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand why the US can't learn from other countries to improve itself. There's a pretty broad assertion buried in your confusion. Like for healthcare, the issue isn't that we can't look at other systems and see that there are advantages, it's that there is widespread resistance to moving away from the existing system. There isn't any single reason for it (lots of people like that they are making lots of money, other people have ideological concerns, etc, etc). Trying to reduce that down to "US can't learn" isn't really very interesting, as that isn't the problem.
dang 6y ago
No one is banning any topics. Nationalistic swipes are not a topic. The issue is that you have a long pattern of nationalistic swipes in your posts to HN (to the point where I brace myself when I see your username, because I expect to run into yet another). It's not ok, it's against the guidelines, we ban accounts that do it, and we need you to stop. You've done this many times about topics other than healthcare, so this isn't just about healthcare (though, separately, repeating the same points over and over about a classic flamewar topic is also against both the site guidelines and the intended spirit of HN). I don't mean to pick on you personally and I hope that's clear. The same rule holds for every user, regardless of which country anyone has a problem with.

by grecy 6y ago

rhino369 6y ago

Don't plenty of countries in the EU have higher poverty rates than the USA? Isn't Australia's essentially the same as the USAs? Is there really a huge difference or are you just subject to a lot of confirmation bias. Canada and Australia are far from solving poverty.

maxerickson 6y ago

I genuinely don't understand why the US can't learn from other countries to improve itself. There's a pretty broad assertion buried in your confusion. Like for healthcare, the issue isn't that we can't look at other systems and see that there are advantages, it's that there is widespread resistance to moving away from the existing system. There isn't any single reason for it (lots of people like that they are making lots of money, other people have ideological concerns, etc, etc). Trying to reduce that down to "US can't learn" isn't really very interesting, as that isn't the problem.

dang 6y ago

No one is banning any topics. Nationalistic swipes are not a topic. The issue is that you have a long pattern of nationalistic swipes in your posts to HN (to the point where I brace myself when I see your username, because I expect to run into yet another). It's not ok, it's against the guidelines, we ban accounts that do it, and we need you to stop. You've done this many times about topics other than healthcare, so this isn't just about healthcare (though, separately, repeating the same points over and over about a classic flamewar topic is also against both the site guidelines and the intended spirit of HN). I don't mean to pick on you personally and I hope that's clear. The same rule holds for every user, regardless of which country anyone has a problem with.