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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by Frondo on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:41AM (#24110457)
I'd say we've been trying that in the US, and it hasn't been working. The richest have captured enough systems to further enrich them that there's no undoing that -- and reducing the government to a referee certainly won't do that.

It honestly baffles me that libertarians can look at the US as it is now and think, "if the government were smaller, life would be better for everyone." I don't see the connection to the two at all, even if I try to follow the libertarian reasoning.

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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by kanyethegreat on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:09PM (#24110758)
The issue for me is that the federal government is notoriously inefficient. They have no external pressure to be efficient since they have no skin in the game. Don't misunderstand me; i'm not saying there aren't huge issues we need to solve in this country like the broken health care system or the rising inequality gap, but I've never seen any data that indicates giving the government more control and money would solve these societal problems. The US gov't already spends significantly more on health care per capita than other similarly wealthy nations[1].

[1]: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

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