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Re:Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-inco... by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:36PM (#17824364)
David Graeber talks a lot about this.

What would you think would help? I personally feel like more voluntary collectives could help protect people from these things, and help make life more worth living.

What do you think?

Re:Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-inco... by anoncoward111 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:41PM (#17824386)
I hope some day the most corrupt and restrictive people and businesses in society just leave us alone and find some other profitable thing to do.

A mafia is defined as a group of people who create a problem and then ask victims to pay for protection from that problem.

End the mafias in this world and we'll have a lot more happiness and entrepreneurship

Re:Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-inco... by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:47PM (#17824413)
I agree. I feel like the only way we can rid ourselves of those people is by building a system where those people cannot benefit. A challenge worth taking on, I think.
Re:Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-inco... by anoncoward111 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:57PM (#17824468)
If I could live somewhere extremely rural and remote, like the deep woods of Maine, and a drone could cheaply drop me supplies every week or something, I could get a good little set up going outside of extortionary forces. But, once that technology exists, the extortionary forces will just move in to the now-inhabitable-area.

Tbh, it's much better to just make peace with it and try to avoid thinking about it unless you have so much power and influence that you can root out corruption somehow. I aint got that tho

Re:Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-inco... by contingencies on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:47AM (#17824666)
Vote with your feet and change environment. It's never been easier, especially for people from high income countries with tech or other white collar professional skills.