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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Sorry, I realized that after I posted, but I disagree with the framing (based on my interpretation of the word "drain") that using them is inherently a bad thing or that they should be rationed in some way.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Retirement isn't a drain, it is a social service. Unless you are wealthy, you cannot retire without corporate or government social insurance plans like pensions, social security, paid off mortgages, medicare, etc. Without these plans,
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I'm starting to believe that landlords just shouldn't exist. What is the benefit to society? We grant them the right to exclude others from the land, enforced by police, merely so they can benefit. The cost of the house is often l
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
http://www.epi.org/publication/robots-or-automation-are-not-... "Robots, or automation, are not the problem. Too little worker power is."
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Let's not kid ourselves. Everyone making that much money forms a social class that works to reengineer society to protect themselves, doctors included. However, we have engineered the system to make it look as though they deserve that
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
These guys take apart The West Wing. Sad that it's only the teaser, the full episode is excellent. https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-101-teaser-a...
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You can probably measure some of that in terms of how people would have done these tasks previously. Some of those tasks are trivial, like keeping a paper calendar instead of a digital one. You can also interpret it in terms of jobs elimina
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
From yesterday: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Seems unlikely. < 1% of the US population is engaged in agricultural pursuits. Distribution is about to get self driving cars.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Why not both? :D
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Man, if only instead of buying a Jet ski these poor souls would find socialism.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I didn't know that so I checked them out and when I saw their featured creators my skin started to crawl.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think this question is only answerable with specific numbers. If UBI = $1 / person, then the difference in pressure is small. Also, you presume that people only work for money. I think with UBI, you'd see a revitalization of co
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I like to think of the cloud as a ski-rental.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Thank you for the links.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Here's a good rundown. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/29/very-bad-men-trump-the-s...
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
It's in large part the choice of topic rather than the details of the article. They could have chosen to highlight how Yemeni defenses work in light of a US backed Saudi bombing campaign.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
O.o The NYT is framing this as Saudi being attacked? The Saudi forces are executing a genocide in Yemen backed by US military targeting, weapons, and mid-air refueling (some of this was stopped but not all of it). This is on the back of Tho
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
As you can see with the tax plan being rammed through, the minority of the wealthiest can ram through whatever they damn well please. We can do the same to them. We outnumber them. Any yes, we can rationally allocate resources to ensure car
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think this is similar to the idea of Health Justice that I've heard Tim Faust talk about. The reason the hospital will take the deal is simple, it's the only deal by law and the private insurance payers will be eliminated.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Think carefully about what you're saying. The rich get to live longer and healthier and the poor get substandard healthcare? The poor are the ones that need to work.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
That's what I was thinking of but didn't articulate correctly. Can you elaborate? What interactions fail if the model isn't comprehensive?
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
The alternative is medicare for all bundled with something that looks like per capita allocations to take care of a patient population. Patients pay nothing at the point of service. Hospitals must drive down costs to make a profit. If they
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I don't understand how this helps hospital management once it enters the feedback loop. It does incentivize them to not get there in the first place, but I bet when you analyze the tradeoffs they make to forestall it you won't be
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I the interesting thing to consider is what happens to the hospitals that do terribly, but not so poorly that they should be shut down. The publication of their rating will start causing doctors and patients to avoid them. In our fee-for-se
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I was very interested to see this first person perspective. I recently wrote an article that might serve as a historical companion to this one, based on public documents rather than on the ground reporting if you're interested: https:
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Of course, we could fight for those people instead of dividing the working class but I digress.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
He's right. NYT flips from a reasonable centrist publication to a war monger at the first hint of fighting. How many bodies do they have on them from lending legitimacy to Afghanistan and Iraq let alone Vietnam?
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I laughed. Thank you.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You're right of course, but there is a reason the colloquialism takes this form as opposed to another. Colloquialisms, the intelligible ones at least, sublimate some underlying element of culture in order to communicate sensibly and ea

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