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"They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”
That collective desire is what holds society together.
Humor. If people cant laugh at each other's joke there is no shared culture and it will dissolve soon. It s sadly happening in a lot of tech communities
A. That's not funny.
'Conscientiousness'[1] (there's some science to this one) Basically shared values, behaviours, rough sense of justice, morality and humanity, and a sense that individuals ought to aspire to those on some level. It's funny because in the West we talk a lot about 'freedom' and 'classical liberalism' - I really think that's partly: a) A response to historically authoritarian systems either political or cultural which we…
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There is nothing "underhanded" about it, and it's nowhere near being "experimental": almost every country in the developed world has universal healthcare and the overwhelming preponderance of evidence demonstrates its superiority in every criterion. If you think that the debate over healthcare has anything to do with the substantive merits of one system over another, you're viewing it through the wrong lens. It is pu…
>Medicare for All being a success in one state would change little at least it would prove to work here- it's not like the US is in the exact same position as the EU eg, I'm not sure how they're connected, but it's obvious that the majority of medical research is being done over here, and I never see that mentioned in the comparisons between our systems and overseas; if the overpayment we're doing over here is necess…
https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...
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> at least it would prove to work here- it's not like the US is in the exact same position as the EU The EU and Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Brunei, Australia, and New Zealand. It works all over the world. Research on the US system accords with the overwhelming evidence from all around: it would work. > eg, I'm not sure how they're connected ... medical research Let's clarify. The repugnant gouging in the…
But pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies are not outrageously profitable compared to chemical manufacturers and other insurers (respectively). The biggest cost center in the health industry is human resources, and nobody seems willing to tackle that (by reducing remuneration to doctors and nurses).
As a sociologist, I can't help but notice some glaring absences. Allow me to amend: ...gift-giving (Mauss, 1925): Giving gifts creates an obligation to reciprocate, tying people together in bonds of mutual obligation. ...collective effervescence (Durkheim, 1912): People engaging in repeated ritual action which aligns their focus on a common object (Erving Goffman called this "interaction ritual") and who become attun…
hey fellow sociologist! the one that imho is really missing is "work", from smith to marx till the present day it has been a cornerstone of social science
An "officially common" way to see/define the world.
Those myths offer an answer to at least one metaphysical question, and also contains base material of a definition for 'good' and 'bad'.
One doesn't have to believe all local myths, convincingly simulating is sufficient.
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hey fellow sociologist! the one that imho is really missing is "work", from smith to marx till the present day it has been a cornerstone of social science
Philosophers often miss that one.