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Which is great until those hills directly or indirectly affect people's health. Healthcare should not be a hill. Prisons should not be a hill. Politics should n
by dempedempe 3y ago
Which is great until those hills directly or indirectly affect people's health. Healthcare should not be a hill. Prisons should not be a hill. Politics should not be a hill.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThey affect health by creating enormous numbers of new fields for research and medicine, which after patent expiry is generified and manufactured cheaply for eternity.
- dempedempe 3y agoYou can have medical research without charging $1000 for an ambulance ride, $10k - $20k for having a child, $100,000 for staying in the hospital a few days. Those are the things I'm talking about.
- robertlagrant 3y agoYou can, but these are complex systems, where some areas will have a profit incentive and be efficient, and others just mired in regulation, either directly or in a way that prevents competition arising. I don't think anyone deliberately built that hill. It's made up of lots of awesome hills and lots of hideous quagmires.
- ativzzz 3y agoPick your poison - would you rather have too many hills or not enough hills? Turns out limiting hill making is complex, and requires an even bigger hill that calls the shots
- Podgajski 3y agoI would, in fact, rather, we had a flat landscape.
- ativzzz 3y agoA flat landscape implies no opportunity for anyone to do anything. If you really want, go live in the wilderness on your own. That is the only true flat landscape
- Podgajski 3y agoFlat landscape means no one rules over anyone else. I means you can give people authority but you can take away that authority without repercussions. If you want to live in a world subjected by a king or some fool on a hill, go ahead. I don’t pretend like you’re anything other than a peasant.
- ativzzz 3y ago> no one rules over anyone else This is impossible, because in this scenario, someone will get weapons and will forcefully take over and rule everyone else. This is just how human nature works
- Podgajski 3y agoWow, you have such a depressing take on human existence. I don’t see people getting weapons and taking over people in the streets, do you?
- ativzzz 3y agoIt's not depressing at all! It's actually just part of natural selection. We, as living beings, will compete for resources. This is why us humans are as dominant as we are on this planet, and why we will continue to spread as far as we can. If we were not like this, our species would have never made it to modern homo sapiens and would have died out tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago That's because we've built some very large hills to prevent this - notably powerful governments with militaries and police forces. Lack of hills is essentially anarchy, where all of a sudden the strongest now become the ruler
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- dempedempe 3y agoEurope's doing a pretty good job at limiting hill making, while still having plenty of hills for healthy competition.
- qez2 3y ago[dead]