I’m not a libertarian, but from what I’ve seen of their positions on this, they don’t think that it’s possible in an effective way. There’s two possible versions: the government pays for everything, or there’s public and private health care. A lot of countries have both, which is probably the best option since driving out competition is going to make everything go to crap.
The problem is that there are some arrangements that simply can’t work or the existing system would implode in the transition.
There are also a lot of people who don’t want to pay because someone who refused to get insurance for years finally decided to sign up for public health care because they suddenly got a serious health problem. In some possible arrangements, it would be necessary to force people to have health insurance, which is its own rabbit hole.
The problem is defining what acceptable positive rights involves. There are people who think that having to “work to survive” is somehow a major human rights abuse. I don’t think that anyone should be entitled to not have to work unless they are severely disabled and can’t work. At the same time, expecting people to work multiple jobs is corporate oppression.
Libertarians are political extremists who hate anything related to the government but don’t care about being oppressed by private businesses, or they think that it simply won’t happen in their utopia. Libertarians are everything they hate about the woke left, only applied to the government.
Libertarians are the right wing version of 20 year old socialists who want free stuff and have no understand of what really drives and motivates people.
I tend to lean left but I’m incredibly disappointed with the state of the political landscape.
This is probably where I align economically, but I support statist mandates that are inconsistent with “individual libertarianism” or “civil libertarianism.”
For example, we should decriminalize drug use, but there should absolutely be a strong statist intervention where people are forced to stop using drugs.
The way people online constantly say ‘talk to your doctor’ like it’s a panacea is a lot like how medieval peasants weren’t able to read scripture and they just had to trust their clergy’s interpretations...
Liability is also one of the reasons we don’t have so much of the insanity we used to have. It’s the reason you don’t have to worry as much about poisoned food.
One of the ideas that I had is that pork in the СШР is offered as a downgrade that costs less. The communist party would then pass laws mandating this since offering pork as a downgrade instead of an alternative as an upgrade would make it easier to get prosecutions for blasphemy and hate crimes if someone put pork into the...
Edit: A few people have interpreted the title as serious, so I wanna clarify that it was meant as a sarcastic joke about how little sense the neurotypical world makes to me, but it is still legitimately me asking for help understanding said neurotypical world....
No one is specifically in charge of social rules. There are reasons why things are the way they are, and it seems common that geeks and people who have often operated outside of this system think that they can intentionally defy the social rules without consequence if they understand the reason for it and think they can compensate.
This sort of “social hacking” doesn’t work because geeks don’t fully comprehend all the reasons why things are the way they are and it ultimately blows up in their face.
I support automation of the service industry, but I worry about the future of everyone when everyone is constantly going about their day with no real interaction.
The reason I support self checkout is because a small number of employees can oversee a large number of machines. It’s bad for people who are going to end up with extreme social anxiety because they were allowed to go for long periods of time without real interaction.
As a theoretical religious communist, I have a counterpoint. An independent livable wage would be too high for many jobs and would ultimately lead to the elimination of those jobs. While that might sound good, I’ve had autistic people tell me that retail is the only thing they can do.
I feel like a lot of people should be getting paid and treated better then they are, but then there are redditors who think that fast food employees should be getting paid $30 per hour.
Hypothetically, if fast food employees had to be paid $30 per hour, the first thing that would happen is prices would go up. Then large numbers of employees would be fired. The employees who remain would be the absolute minimum necessary to do the job and they would end up extremely overworked. They would also be expected to be on call to come in at any moment during their time off and they’d likely be on an extremely strict attendance policy since not showing up could mean the restaurant has to close down.
Not having any social interaction would be likely to make it a lot harder.
As much as I think automation is progress, a future where people can go get stuff with no human interaction at all will likely end badly for the people who are already on the edge.
WFH is good for a lot of people and has practical advantages, but it will likely be incredibly bad for people who are already struggling.
I think that you’re right. I don’t want to stress him out but I see him do a lot of things without thinking that I’m sure aren’t good for him. He kind of just “exists” in that he just goes about his day and punches the clock and comes home.
I don’t want to deal with the fallout if his scooter were to get stolen because I don’t think he’d take it well.
I’ve told him the reason. I suspect that maybe he feels like it’s slightly more difficult to take the scooter back and it’s enough of a hump that he doesn’t do it.
I’ll try setting up a parking area in the back with a place for tools and related things and set it up so that everyone has their own space that they can use and lock up a bike if they have one. I think that giving him his own space like that would be good for encouragement.
I’m not sure exactly how he is with road rage, but he kept telling me about incidents that he had until I told him that he’s obviously the one instigating them because there’s no way that a reasonable person lets themselves get caught up in trouble like that.
As long as it doesn’t cause a problem for me, then it’s not a big deal. I suspect that if it happened though, I’d have to deal with him having explosive anger over it.
There’s also a huge about of FUD on EVs being able to be remotely controlled or disabled. The same can be done with gas vehicles that have computers in them and EVs can be made dumb with only the electronics needed for them to function.
I agree, but the real problem with ebikes over light motorcycles is the range. Trying to get an ebike with decent speed and range costs a fortune and the range and speed is still incredibly limited for long trips.
You also can’t ride them on the road where I live, a point that I’ve been trying to get through to one of my roommates.
So I’m a shut-in with a ton of problems and no money. My life revolves around World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 which is sad in its own right I’m sure. Anyway every single time I try to find a community (guild or clan) it goes to hell within a month or so. They always say I’m too negative about the game or my performance. No...
It’s hard when you don’t have any IRL friends and don’t even fit in online. The truth is that trying to be social online can be even harder because it’s so shallow. When it comes to groups like that, they can be more exclusionary then having personal time with someone because the group is there for a purpose and anyone who brings down the mood gets shown the door.
My sister was diagnosed with autism and she became a trans lesbian Republican. A lot of progressives hate her and can’t understand why there are gay people who become Republicans.
I can’t be the only one who absolutely hates the idea of a particle having two states at once, right? Is it just a personal thing or is it tied somehow to the fact that autistic people generally have more binary thinking?...
Based on experience, it makes sense to me that some autistic people might be very upset by this because it seems like some of them have a very strong desire to maintain control.
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
I'm so sick of every single medical-related question people have online constantly getting spammed with 'talk to your doctor!!!!'
The way people online constantly say ‘talk to your doctor’ like it’s a panacea is a lot like how medieval peasants weren’t able to read scripture and they just had to trust their clergy’s interpretations...
What are the rules for selling pork in your world?
One of the ideas that I had is that pork in the СШР is offered as a downgrade that costs less. The communist party would then pass laws mandating this since offering pork as a downgrade instead of an alternative as an upgrade would make it easier to get prosecutions for blasphemy and hate crimes if someone put pork into the...
Why are neurotypicals in charge of making up the social rules? They're not even very good at it.
Edit: A few people have interpreted the title as serious, so I wanna clarify that it was meant as a sarcastic joke about how little sense the neurotypical world makes to me, but it is still legitimately me asking for help understanding said neurotypical world....
People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Could Interact More Easily with a Robot than with a Human - Reasons and Limits (www.mdpi.com)
Published: 12 February 2024, PDF available, 43 pages
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Does anybody know where I can meet more autistic people like me?
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)
Being 'to negative'
So I’m a shut-in with a ton of problems and no money. My life revolves around World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 which is sad in its own right I’m sure. Anyway every single time I try to find a community (guild or clan) it goes to hell within a month or so. They always say I’m too negative about the game or my performance. No...
Autism and Quantum Mechanics
I can’t be the only one who absolutely hates the idea of a particle having two states at once, right? Is it just a personal thing or is it tied somehow to the fact that autistic people generally have more binary thinking?...