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0 pointssyki4y ago0 comments

Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, Spain, etc. all run a national healthcare systems for far cheaper than the U.S. that covers everyone with more or less equal outcomes. The citizens of those countries don’t go bankrupt when getting care. It can be done.

DMV is quite good in my state. The Postal Service does an outstanding job of delivering packages. NIST and the Park Service provide great benefits to the nation. The U.S. military is government run and it does a great job at destroying organized state power. Should we privatize all of these organizations? How about privatizing the court system? Do you really want to live on Ferenginar?

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nyokodo4y ago· 1 in thread

> Do you really want to live on Ferenginar?

Hollywood caricatures should never underpin your understanding of economics.

sykiOP4y ago

Humor shouldn’t get in the way of understanding the point being made. Clearly this reference to Ferenginar was illustrative of a broader point. Equally clear is that it doesn’t underpin my understanding of economics. No reasonable reading of what I wrote suggests this.

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