QuiteSocialized

For this to hold, each of those water molecules in that swimming pool needs to somehow turn into a random 50 base pair chain of RNA.

Those RNA molecules are also going to be ~two orders of magnitude larger than a water molecule, so you're going to need a bigger pool...

To actually replicate, some loose ingredient molecules must also be present, and in reasonable quantities to be at hand in any given place in the pool.

The argument you are actually making is that a vessel that is filled with randomly assembled chunks of RNA not shorter than 50 base pairs each, the quantity of which equal the number of molecules of water in an Olympic pool, would contain life with probability ~1.

Now, the ocean is large, and a billion years is a long time, but I'm a long way from convinced that the chance of life is 100% on any given suitable planet.

"What is the Kelly Blue Book value of a 1989 Toyota Hilux?"

Sometimes insufficient capacity and long wait times can be the result of a government's agenda.

Here in BC, we have (mandatory) auto insurance provided by a crown corporation with a monopoly. The neo-liberal government before the current more socialist leadership hated it and wanted desperately to privatize car insurance. The problem is that ICBC is dearly loved by most residents here. There is a playbook for this problem.

They appointed a fairly incompetent civil servant to run things, and also started raiding the fund, to the tune of billions of dollars.

After about a decade of this, the company was a mess and nearly broke. They were forced to raise rates. The premier characterized the situation as a "dumpster fire" and editorials started popping up arguing for privatization.

That government was defeated, and the new leadership sorted it all out. Within a couple of years, drivers in BC were getting cheques in the mail because ICBC was making too much profit.

There are powerful interests very interested in getting a piece of healthcare in Canada, and some of the shenanigans you see here smell a lot like a set-up to make things become broken enough that the voters will demand privatization.

Just for one example, in the last few years staffing agencies have been hiring away nurses by offering higher wages and then contracting them back to the health authorities at ~$130/hr. This has cost billions to taxpayers and lead to great resentment within the regular staff.

Some folks somewhere allowed this to happen. Why?