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Statistically in the US at least crime is at an all time low.
Source? That's genuinely surprising as someone living outside the US
Concern about crime has risen while actual crime has decreased.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.
> we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Many in the US, including myself, are looking at the EU with increasing amounts of envy.
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> we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Many in the US, including myself, are looking at the EU with increasing amounts of envy.
Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.
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Does that change the urgency? Or just the perceived morality? TBH just because it's a question of strategy and survival doesn't change its importance.
Realizing it changes the urgency with which we should find a workaround that avoids the prisoner's dilemma altogether. We must go beyond thinking about strategy and "survival", because we have restricted our thinking of "survival" to a narrow economic domain. And that domain is the continued enrichment of the rich and calling it "strenthening the economy". However, we must find new ways of thinking that go beyond thi…
Reminds me of the plot twist in the Firefly movie.
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“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
Yup -- this idea, championed by Regan and the Republicans at the request of billionaires -- is the reason why we have the disaster of Trump in the WH right now. Like any institution, it being helpful or not rests entirely on the kind of people that run it. If you have criminals running the show, it's unsurprisingly going to harm the population. The Republicans pushed this idea so hard in the 80s. But it's so telling…