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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by 6figurelenins on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:05AM (#32575820)
Are you really going to pretend -- to this audience -- you haven't enjoyed the (yes) magical benefits of profit-seeking innovation?

Progressivism conquered America a century ago. Antitrust law. Central bank. Income tax. Universal suffrage. Old age pensions. Public education, research grants. National parks. Interstate highways. Welfare, public housing. Equal opportunity employment. Disaster relief. Socialized medicine for the poor and elderly. Workplace safety. Automobile safety and emissions standards. Space shuttle.

Recently, a flirtation with Universal Basic Income.

You're concerned about what? Free Prime delivery?

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by Baloo on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:26AM (#32579150)
People are (hopefully) concerned with growing inequality, wealth centralising into small pockets of society, the lawlessness in which multinational corporate entities operate, the damage being caused to the environment by heavily promoted consumerism..
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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by 6figurelenins on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:34AM (#32590745)
What do you mean by inequality, and how much can you accept for a machine that kills poverty?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by Baloo on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:36PM (#32613533)
https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality
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