Re:Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage ...
by maxerickson on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:40PM
(#25973274)
I genuinely don't understand why the US can't learn from other countries to improve itself.
There's a pretty broad assertion buried in your confusion.
Like for healthcare, the issue isn't that we can't look at other systems and see that there are advantages, it's that there is widespread resistance to moving away from the existing system. There isn't any single reason for it (lots of people like that they are making lots of money, other people have ideological concerns, etc, etc). Trying to reduce that down to "US can't learn" isn't really very interesting, as that isn't the problem.
There's a pretty broad assertion buried in your confusion.
Like for healthcare, the issue isn't that we can't look at other systems and see that there are advantages, it's that there is widespread resistance to moving away from the existing system. There isn't any single reason for it (lots of people like that they are making lots of money, other people have ideological concerns, etc, etc). Trying to reduce that down to "US can't learn" isn't really very interesting, as that isn't the problem.