Re:Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason'
by ZenoArrow on Sunday July 30, 2017 @09:01AM
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> "On a family scale, being rich is close to the healthiest thing you can do."
I would say being self-reliant is the 'healthiest' thing you can do.
Being rich is a type of self-reliance, but it comes with its downsides. The biggest one is probably isolation. A disconnection from the world around you. Perhaps the world around you is 'unhealthy' so it makes some sense to be disconnected from it, but generally it's a downside.
Re:Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason'
by viraptor on Sunday July 30, 2017 @09:13AM
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That's a deeper / secondary result. I was thinking in terms of basic needs. Self-reliance is good, but if you live in a good area, close to a good hospital where you don't wait and don't need to worry that calling an ambulance is a debt risk, your survival chance is much higher. You can't realistically provide this yourself / in small community.
Even basic human events like a childbirth: if everything goes well - great, if you get PPH - you've potentially got minutes before bleeding out.
Re:Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason'
by ZenoArrow on Sunday July 30, 2017 @10:36AM
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That's why you should support public health services. That way everyone in your community can benefit from the services that you can't provide for yourself. Self-reliance is an ideal rather than the be-all end-all.
On a global scale, I think that's a bad situation. On a family scale, being rich is close to the healthiest thing you can do.