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"NAFTA is a good thing for usa" Nope: https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/ https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/ "USA spends 6x more mone
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
"NAFTA is a good thing for usa"
Nope: https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/ https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/
"USA spends 6x more money on every american in healthcare"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/health/us-health-care-spending-global-perspective/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/health/us-health-care-spendin...
It's tough for me to not look at your claims as not malicious given how thoroughly and completely they have been debunked by the record. The fact taht you use spending as some kind of proxy for good says your foundational conception of what society is for is flawed.
So I'm not sure what else there is to say.
- teitoklien 3y agoYou missed this part that i mentioned right after the spending metrics > it is just a WILDLY inefficient country It has worse outcomes because it wastes a lot, that’s what I was saying. > It's tough for me to not look at your claims as not malicious You are too quick to think, everyone on this planet is out to get you or has “malicious” and “evil” intentions. > "NAFTA is a good thing for usa" Nope: https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/ https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/ You’re missing the long term idea around NAFTA, it’s to make America competitive again and curb its reliance on other continents like europe or asia. They want to reshore manufacturing to usa and its neighbours. This is necessary. The way you just shut it up and say “nope” that it removes short term bargaining power for american workers. It’s like talking about the industrial revolution or the agricultural revolution which brought efficiencies and made those countries more productive. Back then they argued that it was removing bargaining power of people working at farms, that it was taking away jobs like being a tailor at a sweatshop working your way to death. Standard of living of americans are much better now, NAFTA long term is planned to be like that, it may fail, but bets are on to make it succeed. I’d recommend talking to a therapist, all this anarcho capitalism, a random HN commenter being somehow “malicious” and this “evil agenda” to change people’s opinions on HN, idk this is too much drama. Just have a civil conversation, we are humans, not demons or angels.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoEvil is when good men stand by and do nothing or worse benefit from broken system I suggest reading Diogenes I have a great therapist already though ;)