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I'm half Jewish (49% according to 23andMe), and I have a picture of 10 people of my own family killed in a mass grave, so I couldn't be farther from an anti-sem

I'm half Jewish (49% according to 23andMe), and I have a picture of 10 people of my own family killed in a mass grave, so I couldn't be farther from an anti-semite. Also I have no problem with Israel, as I said (I have far relatives there). What I don't like is the mix of price based capitalistic distribution for the countries, but not priced based capitalisic distribution of vaccines for the people. It's fake humanitarian and fake capitalism at the same time.

hfjfktkrkf 6y ago
Just imagine govmts auctioning vaccines. That's how you start a revolution. And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.
- xiphias2 6y ago
  The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. What you're describing is tribalism. I hate so see how US looks at the wars it is fighting: it doesn't matter that they kill 100000 people, but the 100 Americans that died are so much more important just because they were born in a rich country. We are all on the same planet together, and tribalism is already stopping us from limiting ourselves from using more resources that the planet can provide.
  - quonn 6y ago
    > The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general. It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on. It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.
  - hfjfktkrkf 6y ago
    Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb: > I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.
BobbyJo 6y ago
Government's prioritize their own people over others, but don't want vaccines going to the highest bidder domestically for the obvious social cohesion problems that will create. Seems like a perfectly fine/pragmatic approach to things to me.

hfjfktkrkf 6y ago

Just imagine govmts auctioning vaccines. That's how you start a revolution. And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.

xiphias2 6y ago
The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. What you're describing is tribalism. I hate so see how US looks at the wars it is fighting: it doesn't matter that they kill 100000 people, but the 100 Americans that died are so much more important just because they were born in a rich country. We are all on the same planet together, and tribalism is already stopping us from limiting ourselves from using more resources that the planet can provide.
- quonn 6y ago
  > The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general. It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on. It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.
- hfjfktkrkf 6y ago
  Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb: > I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.

BobbyJo 6y ago

Government's prioritize their own people over others, but don't want vaccines going to the highest bidder domestically for the obvious social cohesion problems that will create. Seems like a perfectly fine/pragmatic approach to things to me.