Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by danuker on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:38AM
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If you consider the cost of healthcare in developed countries, it may be that meat is much more expensive.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by throwaway3b03 on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:07AM
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You're somehow implying that eating meat is bad for human health, which considering how general a statement it is, is bound to be completely false.
Human beings have thrived eating meat for hundreds of thousands of years. And it's a lot harder to completely address all the nutritional requirements on a purely vegetarian diet, but not impossible.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by danuker on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:20AM
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We've only lived long enough to suffer from the effects of meat in the past century or two.
Here are videos exploring studies about meat, which convinced me.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by hoseja on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:30AM
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We've hunted large portion of large fauna to extinction. Agricultural society is a way to factory-farm peasants to use in warfare.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by danuker on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:05AM
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How is that actionable? Move to a hunter-gatherer state?
How is meat produced, if not agriculture?
In any case, agriculture barely employs anyone nowadays, with mechanization and animal factory-farms.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by doliveira on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:54AM
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If anything, it's agriculture that's "unnatural". It only came about 10 thousand years ago, and most plants we eat have been vastly altered to fit our tastes.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by unionpivo on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:46AM
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With exception of USA, individuals cost of healthcare is not that high.
I pay several times more for my phone+internet per year than for my healthcare (and I have 2 separate chronic conditions)
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by CaptArmchair on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:02AM
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> individuals cost of healthcare is not that high
What you don't pay for out of pocket, you do pay either in quality of care or through your taxes, one way or the other.
Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
by jjoonathan on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:10AM
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It's definitely possible to win this game compared to the US, because the situation in the US is so bad. We pay double and our health care isn't twice as good, not even close. You have to hustle hard in order to argue that it's even a smidgen better, let alone twice as good, because mostly it's just more expensive.