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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts 
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On Nov 5, 2015, landmark wrote: Actually, in an impressive display of mentalism, I addressed your points - with you in mind, actually - before you made them: Quote:
On Nov 4, 2015, LobowolfXXX wrote: I'm sure that the point the I made has been around quite a while; the Great Depression was a long time ago, and 30 years ago, people who had not directly experienced it were raising children. Those who have been through the hardest rainstorms tend to be the most inclined to prepare for rainy days. OK, I have some work to do, and I also have to make time to drop a one-liner about your Tamir Rice anecdote in another thread.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21263 Posts
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Lobo yes about rainstorms. It is a perfect analogy. And without the sense of alarm often teaching others to prepare does not have that same impact.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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The Hermit.jpg "View Profile") Veteran user 301 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2015, landmark wrote: I will. maybe, wrong- insurance is more expensive but real cost of care is proportional except for new technologies that didn't exist then, true because of student loans pushed by govt, wrong, they are lower, higher discretionary now with somewhat lower income. As to productivity, it had almost nothing to do with workers. It was computerization and automation. That has caused some jobs to be negated, but that's always been the case. No elevator operators these days - and those guys had a union. Workers are not living as well because as a general group, the unskilled have less opportunity now than before. Manufacturing used to need unskilled labor and paid well for it. Now robots do that job. You have to have an economic benefit to the employer. No skill, low pay, no pay. The healthcare issue is one of govt intrusion and technical breakthroughs. It costs a Billion dollars to develop a new med. Much of that is govt testing, etc. Should the company that invests that much make a good return? Or , should they invest in something else? This has drawn costs higher, but we also save millions that would have died 30 years ago. Example, we spend billions on aids research for a drug that wouldn't be needed if people behaved differently. Why should the govt spend billions on a disease that could be eradicated in a generation without medicine. |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2015, landmark wrote: I will. maybe, wrong- insurance is more expensive but real cost of care is proportional except for new technologies that didn't exist then, true because of student loans pushed by govt, wrong, they are lower, higher discretionary now with somewhat lower income. As to productivity, it had almost nothing to do with workers. It was computerization and automation. That has caused some jobs to be negated, but that's always been the case. No elevator operators these days - and those guys had a union. Workers are not living as well because as a general group, the unskilled have less opportunity now than before. Manufacturing used to need unskilled labor and paid well for it. Now robots do that job. You have to have an economic benefit to the employer. No skill, low pay, no pay. The healthcare issue is one of govt intrusion and technical breakthroughs. It costs a Billion dollars to develop a new med. Much of that is govt testing, etc. Should the company that invests that much make a good return? Or , should they invest in something else? This has drawn costs higher, but we also save millions that would have died 30 years ago. Example, we spend billions on aids research for a drug that wouldn't be needed if people behaved differently. Why should the govt spend billions on a disease that could be eradicated in a generation without medicine. |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2015, landmark wrote: I will. maybe, wrong- insurance is more expensive but real cost of care is proportional except for new technologies that didn't exist then, true because of student loans pushed by govt, wrong, they are lower, higher discretionary now with somewhat lower income. As to productivity, it had almost nothing to do with workers. It was computerization and automation. That has caused some jobs to be negated, but that's always been the case. No elevator operators these days - and those guys had a union. Workers are not living as well because as a general group, the unskilled have less opportunity now than before. Manufacturing used to need unskilled labor and paid well for it. Now robots do that job. You have to have an economic benefit to the employer. No skill, low pay, no pay. The healthcare issue is one of govt intrusion and technical breakthroughs. It costs a Billion dollars to develop a new med. Much of that is govt testing, etc. Should the company that invests that much make a good return? Or , should they invest in something else? This has drawn costs higher, but we also save millions that would have died 30 years ago. Example, we spend billions on aids research for a drug that wouldn't be needed if people behaved differently. Why should the govt spend billions on a disease that could be eradicated in a generation without medicine. |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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You are sadly mistaken if you believe that everyone who contracted AIDS did so as a result "of their own behavior."
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21263 Posts
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One of my best friends in 1991 contacted AIDS. He was a non drug using heterosexual. He did not frequent prostitutes.
His only behavioral issue was that he was afflicted with hemophilia. He had a knee replacement and they had to give him blood. The blood was infected. He died rather quickly. Please explain to me which behavior he could have modified that would have changed the outcome? I can't believe some of the things people say.
Danny Doyle
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Not choosing sides here, but maybe the point was that if (other) people had changed their behavior, the blood supply wouldn't have been infected.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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@ Hermit
So many misconceptions in one post are hard to address at this hour but let's deal with the most fundamental one: "You have to have an economic benefit to the employer. No skill, low pay, no pay." There will never be enough "skilled" jobs by definition in a capitalist society. If there were lots of skilled workers, they would no longer command a higher wage. A society that actually cared about its members and not just "the economic benefit to the employer" would see this as a fundamental problem. Same with the drug companies. "Should the company that invests that much make a good return? Or, should they invest in something else?" The question, rather, should be, what kind of society asks the above question in a serious way, and why wouldn't that society be considered a failed one? Is the purpose of a society for the benefit of the few or the many?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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I'd say that American society benefits "many."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Is it a secret society?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Nov 6, 2015, landmark wrote: Welcome to my world.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: Isaac Asimov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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RNK Inner circle 7527 Posts
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On Nov 6, 2015, LobowolfXXX wrote: Exactly! It definitely does. More than any other country in the world!
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Nov 6, 2015, ed rhodes wrote: Tom Fogerty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fogerty |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: Context People. I don't want to start an AIDS discussion. I was using it as an example of a lot of money going to something that was traditionally treated as an epidemic. I know SOME people have gotten AIDS from no fault of their own. HOWEVER, if you don't use IV drugs or sleep with people with AIDS you don't get it. We spend billions on a disease that is caused MOSTLY by behavior, that in most cases is reckless by any standards. I am not talking about gayness. People that contract it today are almost always engaging in risky behavior. |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts
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On Nov 6, 2015, landmark wrote: Society is not for the benefit of anyone. Who decides in 'society' who should benefit and why? Your 'clarifications' are loaded with assumptions about roles that may just not exist. What is the basis for judging whether a society has failed and who sets the definition. It seems your retort contains many personal ideas on how to judge the value of things not related or controlled by you. As to the few or the many, who decides who the many are? |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts
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Landmark, question on society role. In Africa, millions are infected with AIDS because they continue to do behaviors that cause it. There are education campaigns, etc. Is it society's role to protect and/or administer to people that are ill because of their own behavior? Should other countries spend billions on African AIDS when millions continue to engage in activity they are warned about or let them live with the result of their actions? If so, then society is protecting the few over the many.
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