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Devaluing the stock market would be a good idea since it would detach people's retirement funding from the decisions made by mobs of speculative gamblers. But would require a retur…

Shares do not require sales to achieve more equitable distribution. They merely require dilution.

Obvious false equivalency fallacy. Everyone you don't like is Hitler. Democracy is not just when more than one "party". Just because a fascist or fascist adjacent party is disallow…

Completely ignores externalized costs, and focuses entirely on purely end-user retail costs to operate, not even vendor internal operational costs. Can't even find the words "energ…

This is suddenly a too-online conversation. Please do go be always kind to murderers. Society is definitely better off without anybody agreeing to value respect for human life and …

In practice there are always exceptions to everything. You don't be kind to murderers, for instance. Kindness isn't really a value, though. Shared values are simply things that peo…

Seems like a not difficult and quite worthwhile exercise to come up with at least one or two values that are so basic and fundamental that everyone could share them. Maybe that's w…

What reason might that be? Oh, because you think they are dumber than you? Well they are going to have to suffer the consequences of your smarty-pants bad decisions for way longer …

You people are seriously some of the very worst kind of people. Being a relentless and unstoppable proxy for an infinite set of mailing lists from which you can never be removed is…

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Medicare for All covers pretty much everything. "All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor v…

Yes. "All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor visits; substance use disorder treatment; de…

It is worth mentioning that if the Senate bill version of Medicare for All becomes the law of the land, then previously employer-funded healthcare becomes one less thing for union …

If they are the most demanded skills in tech, then do practitioners command the highest compensation for those skills?