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While they have running water, electricity, lights, internet, all kinds of fresh food on demand, Health Care that actually works, all kinds of abundance like th
by whatusername 14y ago
While they have running water, electricity, lights, internet, all kinds of fresh food on demand, Health Care that actually works, all kinds of abundance like that.
Assuming we are talking about people living in a Developed nation.
- steveklabnik 14y ago> health care that actually works lol (sorry, I live in the US. This idea is laughable.) > internet, all kinds of fresh food on demand These are luxuries that many can't afford.
- maxerickson 14y agoGP probably meant effective medicine, not a 'health care system that is shiny and fair'. If you measure historically, being able to buy a bottle of aspirin is some sort of miracle. Never mind vaccines, treatments for disease or antibiotics (many vaccines and antibiotics are more or less free).
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoThe problem is that "shiny and fair" is linked to the "miracles". Vaccines mostly work to eliminate disease by means of herd immunity. If vaccines because an individualistic economic luxury-good, they will stop working and we will return to the dark days of mass plagues.
- maxerickson 14y agoMeanwhile one of the wealthiest men ever to live is (one of the many people working towards) making sure that polio vaccines will not be necessary in the future. How bleak.
- steveklabnik 14y agoIf you measure historically, access to fire is a miracle. That's not really relevant, though.
- maxerickson 14y agoYou replied sarcastically to someone that labeled access to effective medicine a problem of abundance. The fact that it is true seems a little relevant.