Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App

Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by csomar on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:00PM (#37512467)

I am guessing the people working on the erectile dysfunction medicines are motivated by financial compensation; and that it happens that the people who provide such compensation do happen to intersect with the people who have ED but do not intersect with those who have Ebola.

This is more than capitalism, it's freedom. If you are suggesting that we spend more money on Ebola or public transport, that's tyranny.

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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by runeofdoom on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:25PM (#37512774)

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” -Kurt Vonnegut, University of Oregon speech, 1990

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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by vineyardmike on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:14PM (#37512665)

> This is more than capitalism, it's freedom. If you are suggesting that we spend more money on Ebola or public transport, that's tyranny.

Yikes. It’s actually exactly capitalism. We spent more money than god on COVID research basically from 0. That research didn’t restrict freedoms. We decided to co-opt capitalism and pump money directly where we needed it. This incentives people to research Covid within the capitalist market. We could do the same for Ebola or Public transportation but we chose not to.

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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App by hotnfresh on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:29PM (#37512831)

> This is more than capitalism, it's freedom. If you are suggesting that we spend more money on Ebola or public transport, that's tyranny.

Anything can be whatever if you define your terms in obtuse or unusual ways.

Launder it by burying the questionable definitions a couple layers down from the garbage you’ve set out to “prove”, and you can fool even some smart folks.

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