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> China is very likely going to be the next world leader in medicine. They've been investing heavily in biomedical research and they are sucking up all the talent that the US is defunding. They sure have. They created a global pandemic! And convinced the world it was from bat shit. Incredible.
So you're one of those conspiratorial gain-of-function Wuhan infection wonks. Good to know.
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If you’re enlisted (or even commissioned in most cases), you quite literally don’t get to quit.
Depends on your terms of service and their expiry date. The google term you're looking for is "voluntary separation". Despite what you see in media, nothing in the military bureaucracy is iron-clad. People can and do leave all the time. Usually they keep you for 6 months and then you're off, sometimes without certain benefits depending on circumstances.
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I know a lot of left win Europeans who promote planned economy without realising it. So there's that. I think a better way to look at it is people demanding the government to intervene whenever intervention is beneficial to them personally, while demanding the government leave things alone whenever intervention is detrimental to them personally. Which is just a long winded way to describe the basics of democracy - pe…
> people voting in their own interest. There are some people who care about policy, care about a generally healthy environment. Which has a strong self-interest aspect, as it should, but not narrow. Few people manage to vote for their own narrow interests in a reliable coherent way. Even the rich and powerful reliably foot gun themselves. I believe the vast majority, the vast majority of the time, reliably and enthus…
The result is mostly the same as with your explanation, except yours doesn't explain why there are primary elections and how they can be so unpredictable.
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> people voting in their own interest. There are some people who care about policy, care about a generally healthy environment. Which has a strong self-interest aspect, as it should, but not narrow. Few people manage to vote for their own narrow interests in a reliable coherent way. Even the rich and powerful reliably foot gun themselves. I believe the vast majority, the vast majority of the time, reliably and enthus…
> People vote for brands. Right, so the government should be based on brands rather than people. USA trying to make a people centric system still ended up into a brand centric republican vs democrat, just that now those brands changes dramatically every 4 years just people still vote for the brand even after it changes. Its much more stable when you have stable political party brands like in multi party system, then…
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Why can't we, like, hire good people to oversee this stuff? Pay them competitive wages. If they're corrupt, prosecute the corruption. I feel like these discussions always devolve from "a government is doing a thing badly" → "governments always do things badly" → "governments should stop doing things". But governments are basically the only party that can act in the best interest of citizens rather than shareholders.…
> But governments are basically the only party that can act with the well being of citizens, as opposed to shareholders, in mind. Founders that hasn't gone public yet and sold out are the only ones. The government has already sold out to shareholders, at least in USA. And no its not just "hire good people", its not just "raise wages". What happens if you raise wages is that the useless people get more money, since th…
Why do you think this doesn't happen outside the government?
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Governments should really get out of it's free money crap everywhere. Only people that care should be giving out money so that they can look at their investments and make sure they want to keep spending.
Why can't we, like, hire good people to oversee this stuff? Pay them competitive wages. If they're corrupt, prosecute the corruption. I feel like these discussions always devolve from "a government is doing a thing badly" → "governments always do things badly" → "governments should stop doing things". But governments are basically the only party that can act in the best interest of citizens rather than shareholders.…
Well, I don't think government does ALL things badly, so this is clearly not the case. But the NGO fraud loop is now extremely well established. The thing is none of these programs existed until pretty recently. And before this time in history, we had two mostly co-existent parties in power. Now it seems like specific people will do or allow fraud all the way to the top. We also have bills like "AB 2624" that will make it harder to even find fraud. If our government is behaving this way, I find it best to cut it off from even being allowed to do it.
Go back to roads, police and safety, not funding for alphabet causes.
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> But governments are basically the only party that can act with the well being of citizens, as opposed to shareholders, in mind. Founders that hasn't gone public yet and sold out are the only ones. The government has already sold out to shareholders, at least in USA. And no its not just "hire good people", its not just "raise wages". What happens if you raise wages is that the useless people get more money, since th…
> And no its not just "hire good people", its not just "raise wages". What happens if you raise wages is that the useless people get more money, since the ones who decide who to hire are still bad at hiring, so them raising wages without hiring better people is also a form of corruption. Why do you think this doesn't happen outside the government?
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And in my experience, the capitalists are SUPER OBSESSED with tallying exact numbers of dead by Communist countries. Of course in the USA, "Nobody dies due to capitalism!" It's always a 'personal decision'. Medicines gatekept? Talk to a doctor (state-controlled monopoly) Go to the doctor? Cant afford it? Go die! :) Have a nasty disease that will kill you, but pills purge it? $80k please. And insurance wont pay. Hope…