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Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I think UBI and healthcare would be the least of his issues. Trump showed that social conservatism/fiscal liberalism could be a winning formula for GOP voters. I wouldn’t be surprised if some young, socially conservative candidate in 2024/2028 who is willing to cancel debt/fund stimulus/healthcare wins by a landslide.
Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I wouldn’t say 250k per person per bank per account type is a tiny amount. Moving money from a bank account to the market is a significant increase in risk for all but the most wealthy.
Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The Lancet actually played a major role in promoting anti-vaccine sentiment.

They were the ones who initially published Andrew Wakefield's now-discredited research [1] linking the MMR vaccine to autism. This research and the media attention it garnered massively undermined public trust in vaccines in both the UK and US.

It took them over a decade to officially retract the article.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/
Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Life expectancy for a 40 year old in the US is ~80. It is very likely that with an average lifestyle the parents will be around after the child has graduated college.
Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The solution is to make suburbs more dense so that people are closer to the places they want to go. I suppose this would ultimately result in a “town” rather than a suburb, though.
Cola
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
What do you mean by “dollars that are rapidly losing value”?
Cola
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
They aren't ending them, though. Just prohibiting them.

It seems comically naive to expect that the population that faces virtually zero downside and has the greatest propensity for risky behavior would obey such an order.