I would prefer the stagflation and trains, personally.
That's a problem stemming from government regulation that prevents competition in diabetes insulin.
> trains
I'd prefer trains, too. But the government makes it far too expensive to build lines and operate them.
It's amazing how neo-liberal see government the source of half of their problem. When generally speaking, the true source of their problems is just corporations trying to fuck them up and do business as usual.
We have insulin regulation in most of Europe and Japan.
And still insulin cost there less than 10$ and close to 100$ in USA.
Why ?
oh wait...
Rail, healthcare and rent prices might be bright spots in Japan, but I hardly would consider a regression in real wages and living standards to be "doing fine". Your not doing fine if you can't afford to support yourself and a dependent.
Japan per capita GDP was 44k in 1995 and 33k in 2022.
People die in of diabetes in the US because they eat too much bad food.
The gas lines disappeared literally overnight! And I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. It was amazing. Poof! I remember the next day well. I pulled into a gas station right up to a pump, filled up, and drove home. Aaaahhh! Gas lines never returned.
Reductive, true. Accurate, absolutely.
Carter just didn't have a clue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-...
