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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by WalterBright on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:07PM (#13298971)
> You seem strongly attached to the free market concept - what if another system worked better?

None has yet, not even close. And it's not for lack of trying other systems. Me, I'm familiar enough with history to be disinterested in trying other schemes and risking mass starvation.

Keep in mind that Kansas in the 80s was known as the "Breadbasket of the Soviet Union". See "Ronald Reagan" by Broussard.

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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by hackuser on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:30AM (#13299271)
You didn't answer the question - not that you are on the witness stand, of course.

Many, maybe not you, seem to be much more interested in the ideology and forget about the people. There is not much interest in the 'details' - serious questions about, and thought and attention to, how real people are really faring. Some even sacrifice real people to their ideology; they defend the ideology at all costs, not the people.

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