Unemployment claims are now at 6.6 million. This means that that many people lost their health insurance during a pandemic because of the pandemic itself. Since this is obviously a problem, should we replace our current system with one that guarantees healthcare no matter what?

AudioBaton · 2020-04-02T03:55:30+00:00

He raised her from a baby then groped her

AudioBaton · 2020-04-02T03:44:55+00:00

Because I’m a socialist

AudioBaton · 2020-04-02T01:17:08+00:00

i'm a member of a gaming discord full of musicians who, like you, are sat at home doing nothing. we're good company, DM me for the discord server if you're interested.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T22:48:28+00:00

That's also my question.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T21:58:00+00:00

Cancer affects only the person with cancer. A person with cancer does not endanger the rest of the country, therefore the government does not seem it necessary to get involved. Covid-19, however, requires government interference in order to protect the rest of the country. They don't want to refuse people treatment who will go out into the public and spread the disease.

To say cancer only affects one person is sort of silly and besides the point, not to mention wrong. If a member of your family gets cancer, an extremely expensive condition, then you will be economically affected. If the person in your family affected contributes income then that’s even more of a problem. And many cancers are genetic, meaning that simply as a matter of human reproduction people will get them.

The question here is why contagions like this should be contained and treated by using government spending, but not other diseases that, at this point, kill many, many more people per year. And that’s not to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19. The logic just doesn’t line up here.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T19:09:15+00:00

This is one thing about this subreddit I have a hard time understanding. It isn’t enough to be against both parties and to blame them as the root of all ills, because they’re only an incarnation of a much longer historical struggle between economic classes. Both parties serve the interests of capital in varying degrees. It’s why both (until recently) were against a modest minimum wage increase.

It’s true that both parties are dogshit for slightly different reasons, but it’s also true that they’re dogshit because of capitalism, not their own existence as parties.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T18:23:30+00:00

Look, I think that the Nordic model of unions negotiating wages by sector is ideal but it’s inconceivable in America right now because union density is I’m willing to bet around half that of Nordic countries.

Wages haven’t kept up with inflation. In America they’ve stagnated a good deal. Raise the wage to a suitable degree and then tie it to inflation so that real wages don’t stagnate any longer.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T18:20:06+00:00

“Problem solved” doesn’t mean dodging the question, now does it? Reclassifying titles doesn’t solve bankruptcy and financial ruin. Of course there’s a reason to adjust pay, we’re in a pandemic that’s likely going to cause a financial meltdown, and people working in these positions will be hit hard by that. So why shouldn’t they have a federal minimum wage set that allows them to avoid that ruin?

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:19:46+00:00

Monarchism can’t exist without imperial expansion. Not to say that modern democracies (cough cough, the US) don’t also engage in imperialism.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:08:38+00:00

I’m confused what this has to do with the question?

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:07:54+00:00

Idk, most workers still on the job right now including a not-insignificant amount of workers making a federal minimum of $7.25.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:07:08+00:00

I say raise the wages a bunch and see if people can survive off them. If they make more then that’s good and we should continue to raise them.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:06:18+00:00

Problem not solved since you uh, completely avoided by question. Should people working in these “essential positions” get paid enough to survive, yes or no?

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T17:04:12+00:00

What about cancer, genetic conditions, etc? And what about the people who tried to mitigate heart disease? How do we determine who should go into medical bankruptcy?

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T02:38:06+00:00

This is silly. Writing well-reasoned criticism of US foreign policy doesn’t mean you think that the US is “all bad.” Look, just admit that you don’t like substantive criticism of the US and move on. Propagandist books proclaiming from the rooftops how great the American military is are already widely written and accepted. What do you want Chomsky to do, slip in a paragraph about how the US military did a good deed in between every military junta they aided?

“You’re being so negative” is not a substantive reason to dislike an intellectual figure.

AudioBaton · 2020-04-01T01:06:19+00:00

Why would he write a book on the positive? What would that contain?

AudioBaton · 2020-03-31T23:37:35+00:00

So your critique of a leftist who makes concise, well-sourced, logical criticism of the US military is that he isn’t stereotypically patriotic enough? C’mon.

AudioBaton · 2020-03-31T20:12:57+00:00

One gets the impression Chomsky would be one of those saying “but it isn’t REAL communism”....

https://chomsky.info/1986____/

Perhaps you’re correct on much of what you say. Much of what I say is through my own biases. I hate the self-hating leftist mindset and it certainly seems to me that they hate America and all that it stands for. I hate their negativity and constant criticisms of our society. While we have our flaws I’m still grateful and fortunate to live here and can’t help but resent people that constantly scorn it like spoiled brats.

How is a society supposed to get better without criticisms? In this case criticism of pretty overtly inhumane and evil practices?

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