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Profit imposes discipline on consumption of the product. River water is classically treated as "free" which leads to great waste in agriculture and horitculture
by tuatoru 3y ago
Profit imposes discipline on consumption of the product. River water is classically treated as "free" which leads to great waste in agriculture and horitculture.
Requiring a resource to be sold at a profit ensures it goes to where it is most needed, and that it is used efficiently.
- grecy 3y agoSounds like you've read up on your capitalism. If your little tale was true, the USA would have cheaper and better healthcare than developed countries that have free healthcare. That is not the case. Your little tale doesn't have to always be true, there are other ways of doing things in this world.
- tuatoru 3y agoWhere do you get "cheaper" from that? It certainly has "better" care for individuals ... at a price. Population health starts with urban design that forces people to walk.
- grecy 3y agoThe US has much worse health outcomes than other developed countries, and they pay more for healthcare than any other developed country. Running it as a for profit business results in Worse / Worse. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
- tremon 3y agoBut your priors are different. The US is a very solipsistic society, which means that the quality of care that an individual can achieve always trumps the median health of the entire population: everyone is conditioned to believe that they will be the ones to achieve the highest rung, and those who don't manage it deserve their lower quality of life.