Re: Three Body Problem

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:03:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 8/22/24 12:05, D wrote:

 
 
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Scott Lurndal wrote:
 

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

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At the risk of widening the discussion a bit, I recommend Johan
Norbergs,
"The Capitalist Manifesto" where he shows in a very easy to understand

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Balance that with Thomas Piketty.
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"Capital in the Twenty-First Century"
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Haha, nice joke! ;) That book has been thoroughly critiqued to death I'm
afraid.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century#Criticism .

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It is a very difficult book to read especially for people who
want to make a living in the Capitalist marketplace. It ain't even a
novel with a coherent plot or bio where interesting things are
happening and I bet the only thing harder than reading it was
writing it and dragging lots of facts from very dusty tomes.
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Still it clearly points out that the more money accumulates in
private hands the less the benefits to the nation/state/populations.
Especially when the very rich avoid paying for the wars that they
force the nation into for the hope of profit despite the death toll
of soldiers, auxiliaries and non-combatants.
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During the Covid-19 shutdowns all over the USA and in the rest
of the world billionaires continued to accumulation wealth. The rest of
the citizenry was losing money and dying. Nurses and physicians and
the maintenance personnel at hospitals were being worked too hard and
many left their occupations as soon as they could do so. This was
because #45 junked the carefully crafted plans from the previous
administration which might have ameliorated the situation.

Those plans may have worked, but having an actual /medical system/
instead of merely a /medical industry/ might have helped more.

The thought here is that, in a medical system, senior housing
facilities would not get to the point because most of the staff was as
sick as the inmates; staff from the rest of the /system/ would have
been temporarily re-assigned to help. But our medical industry did no
such thing, at least in the Seattle area at the start (and we /were/
the start: the first USA case was in such a facility and they were hit
hard).

A medical /system/ might also have started training nurses as soon as
the pandemic started, to the point that they could at least take some
of the burden off of the fully-trained nurses being worked to death.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"