It’s not socialism. In fact it would allow the US to be more capitalistic in many ways (no need to minimum wage, no need to force companies to provide medical benefits, no more social security, etc...). In fact, if you expanded it enough you could even get rid of things like medicare, medicaid, low income housing,…

Also UBI will save massive amounts of money by eliminating whole sections of the government (no more unemployment office, welfare office, SSDI office, food stamps, etc...). I wouldn’t go so far as say it would cost us nothing, but it would cost a lot less than people think.

One of the may fantastic secondary effects of UBI is that a lot of people would leave places like California to live in cheaper parts of the country. I can’t even tell you how much the USA would save by reducing the amount of super concentration that happens in the top 20 US cities. Real estate, infrastructure, power,…

This isn’t about “not agreeing” I don’t agree with a lot of people about abortion. I don’t think they are idiots. This is about brainwashing and the willful desire to stay misinformed.

And yet 90% of Republicans still think that renewables lose money and are only expanded because of government hand-outs. What a bunch of fucking idiots.

I don’t know, things were pretty good in the 90's. Huge econ growth, low unemployment, race stuff really seemed to be on an uphill trajectory, only the real loons thought the Clintons ran a covert drug factory /assassination house out of a rural Arkansas airfield, and the innocent days of the internet.

Reporters really need to bring up and discredit Rasmussen as much as possible.

I think the laws will change (reducing the ability to sue for medical malpractice is a carrot that can be used to help bring certain groups on-board). I don’t think medicine will become any safer.

Yes, Steam would have to get the consent of the developers and publishers. Many of whom would say no. I have not read the steam developer contract, but my guess is that it explicitly states that sales numbers are not to be release publicly (by either side)

Why not just do Medicare for all and eliminate insurance companies altogether? Insurance companies are the major problem with US healthcare.

You need to understand why medical care isn’t handle weel by the free market. People have very little expertise and their contact with medicine is primarily catastrophic unique high cost situations. This is not nearly the same situation where you can ask your neighbor what’s a good brand of detergent, try it a few…

Yeah, there’s probably four areas where you can bring down the price without too much pain:

Dental and optical are slightly different markets. Optical works great in free market (it’s actually better in places where there is no optical insurance - like the UK). Dental is more of a toss-up.

Two if you count both his parents :)

It will actually bring down cost pretty substantially (at least 25% is dead weight cost of the insurance industry).

It’s a long term approach, but I still think the easiest way to get single-payer through is to allow people to buy into medicare at 50. Just talk about the problem with older people being unable to get jobs with benefits and letting them still get health insurance they pay for. Then allow health insurance companies to…

Out of curiosity, what do you do?

No medium or larger size publisher would want the data available publicly. I’d guess 50/50 with small and indie devs. It’s like kickstarter, a bad start can trash a game - people don’t want to buy a loser.

His base is all on SSDI - that’s the white person’s scam.