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Even if you if you agree with the premise, it still always costs us all more in the long run when people don’t get healthcare.
We need to provide healthcare early and often. Turns out there’s a high correlation between well-fed healthy people and people who learn effectively and have the energy and aptitude to be productive later in life!
Plus, the less often people are laid up, the more time they can spend on doing things: raising family, working, making society feel worth being part of.
The wealthy are corroding the foundation of society, and they will suffer when the building collapses upon them. People are the source of civilization.
Kinda depends on what kind of economy you want. If you need an educated population for advanced work, provide healthcare and welfare in general. If you just need some schmucks to work in the mines or sweatshops, it's much less of a priority. You get what you pay for in the end.
Our main issue is that the 1% get to say what kind of economy we want instead of the other 99%. We all know the 1% would love to replace all humans with AI.
I think the 1% are idiots. Culture comes from people, and the wealthy go out of their way to prevent the fostering of culture. New foods, new media, tourism, people to do things with, all vanishing because the people are too busy being run ragged for the sake of a line going up.
Money is inherently boring. Money is just a means of accessing cool stuff, but if neat things goes extinct, money becomes pointless. The elites are myopic as hell.
With every million people forced to be burger flippers, a George Lucas or Hideo Kojima won't have a career. Our overlords are robbing themselves of a more interesting life.
Where we see the tragedy of the commons, they see first-mover advantage.
This is an argument I've made a few times, well run public healthcare is the fiscally conservative position because it costs much less over time than what we have today.
There's the sticking point; one side of the political spectrum opposes learning