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I don’t think anyone not from that generation can understand how much we’re still living in Reagan’s world.
by hindsightbias 3y ago
I don’t think anyone not from that generation can understand how much we’re still living in Reagan’s world.
- WalterBright 3y agoI like Reagan's world better than Carter's world of hour long gas lines and "Malaise Forever" stagflation.
- hindsightbias 3y ago[flagged]
- ok_dad 3y agoJapan seems to be doing fine with decades of stagflation. Everyone is pretty much taken care of there. Meanwhile, the USA has people dying of diabetes because they cannot afford medicine. I also think if we used trains and other mass transit more, we would be in a better position, like Japan. I would prefer the stagflation and trains, personally.
- simfree 3y agoThe birth rate is cratering, people are eschewing dating, and many live meaker lifestyles than their own parents since they cannot afford to live as well as their parents did. Rail, healthcare and rent prices might be bright spots in Japan, but I hardly would consider a regression in real wages and living standards to be "doing fine". Your not doing fine if you can't afford to support yourself and a dependent.
- WalterBright 3y ago> people dying of diabetes because they cannot afford medicine That's a problem stemming from government regulation that prevents competition in diabetes insulin. > trains I'd prefer trains, too. But the government makes it far too expensive to build lines and operate them.
- adev_ 3y ago> That's a problem stemming from government regulation that prevents competition in diabetes insulin. It's amazing how neo-liberal see government the source of half of their problem. When generally speaking, the true source of their problems is just corporations trying to fuck them up and do business as usual. We have insulin regulation in most of Europe and Japan. And still insulin cost there less than 10$ and close to 100$ in USA. Why ?
- WalterBright 3y ago> Why Taxes make up the difference.
- adev_ 3y agoI respect you for a lot of thing you say Walter but this is garbage. Taxes are not 1000% higher in USA than they are in France or Germany. The main reason are patents, lack of generics, lacks of leverage of insurers in the American health care system and lack of regulation. One of the main insulin provider in the USA is currently Sanofi. Sanofi is a french company. And the same insulin in France is under 10$ and currently reimbursed at 100% by the government. Why ? Because in France the health coverage is state managed. And when the state negotiates the prices (paid by tax payers), the industry shut up and accept them. This is the same in most of Europe Switzerland excepted.
- gamblor956 3y agoFrance has significantly higher taxes than the U.S. does.
- xg15 3y agoGood thing Japan has no government. oh wait...
- femiagbabiaka 3y agoYour train of replies reminds me of a canard I saw once on Twitter, can't remember by who: "Everything is monocausal and the cause the the thing I care most about." Your thing is regulation, apparently.
- WalterBright 3y ago[flagged]
- WillPostForFood 3y agohttps://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/gdp-per-capita https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/gdp-per-capi... Japan per capita GDP was 44k in 1995 and 33k in 2022. People die in of diabetes in the US because they eat too much bad food.
- beached_whale 3y agoThi is objectively and grossly wrong. Diabetes is genetic and most of those you hear about rationing got it as a child because of genetics(type-1), not because they over-ate. Also, elderly get type-2 diabetes without being overweight. It’s statements like you made the perpetuate the victom blaming of diabetes.
- WalterBright 3y agoFrom the NIH: "You are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes if you are not physically active and are overweight or have obesity. Extra weight sometimes causes insulin resistance and is common in people with type 2 diabetes. The location of body fat also makes a difference." https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/symptoms-causes https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...
- beached_whale 3y agohttps://diabetes.org/diabetes/genetics-diabetes https://diabetes.org/diabetes/genetics-diabetes
- WillPostForFood 3y agoObesity tends to run in families, and families often have similar eating and exercise habits.
- thowfaraway 3y agoFalsehoods like that are 100x worse than the price of insulin. 90-95% of diabetes in the US is Type 2, and it is crap diet that causes it. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html And if you want cheap insulin, you can buy it for $25 at Walmart.
- selectodude 3y agoThat’s an impressively reductive way to describe the 1979 oil crisis.
- WalterBright 3y agoWant proof? The very first act Reagan did in office was to sign an Executive Order that repealed all the oil and gas price controls. The gas lines disappeared literally overnight! And I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. It was amazing. Poof! I remember the next day well. I pulled into a gas station right up to a pump, filled up, and drove home. Aaaahhh! Gas lines never returned. Reductive, true. Accurate, absolutely. Carter just didn't have a clue.
- selectodude 3y agoCarter was running against traitorous Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-...
- WalterBright 3y agoI let my subscription to the NYT lapse because of their unrelenting propaganda. In any case, Carter's ineptness at foreign policy left an opening for his opponents. Not that that justifies his opponents, but it's still ineptness. P.S. Carter is a nice guy and well-meaning, and I like him a lot. I'm glad he's been given a long life. He was just not a good President.
- pstuart 3y agoThis is not news, and certainly is in character with that administrations. The failure of your dialog here is further evidence that partisanship does not serve us well.