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None of these places are doing that.
The entire argument is that you can get rid of administration and people can spend money on what they need.
That said, after seeing how many people listen to Dave Ramsey's Snowball method + anti vaxxers, I'm personally convinced UBI will not work. The people that need it the most cannot make rational decisions.
I don't think quality has anything to do with it. Employees are more expensive because life is more expensive.
I've gathered this set of ancedotal data from my experiences in high school, talking to my wife's co-doctors, and talking to my high school aged cousins.
It seems there's this expectation that they won't have to do math, but they will make money. Other professions that come up are lawyer and sales.
I guess my point, I'm not sure why people are math phobic. I imagine it's related to math related trauma in school. Even as an engineer, I find the hardest math I do is basic calc 1, and it's rare. Not to mention, doing algebra is a pretty rare event in general. Everything else we have calculators for.
It's also concerning to hear life saving jobs are primarily held by people who can't do math. If you can't do math, is it even science?
The base rate of the profession is around 250k per year. Specialities are not included in that calculation.
Specialities are closer to 400k to 500k per year.
This is not natural. This is 130+ years of regulatory capture. Other countries pay their physicians half as much.
Not to mention outcomes are basically the same.
The muderation might be awful, but the users are sharp.
Learned something new, and I'm a chem grad.
You are weeding out soft fans.
Plus then you wouldn't need to give apple 30% of your money, and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on an Apple product, and pay for their dev kit.
"Win win win"
Are you going to have government prostitutes to take care of males? I'm kind of joking, but my depressed friends are single males who were first to the bars.
>well they're just a small group of people, who cares, it's not most so they can suffer
"Well the 99.5% is just a small group, who cares if they suffer?"
>You sacrifice the 99.5% for the 0.5%.(If not handled perfectly sacrifices 100%)
>Flattening the curve allows people to have access to ventilators saving an additional 12% of people (oxygen can be taken without hospitals or physicians)
>Suicides, drug addictions, home abuse and more are all side effects of attempting to save the oldest, obese, and sickest population, who otherwise can self quarentine.(My only counter point is that the 0.5% can be called into work, and lose unemployment money.)
Consider most fresh produce is Cheaper than processed food. And it can be eaten raw (or steamed easily in a microwave)
I think education is the major factor here. Commercials will tell you that fast food is cheap, despite it not being cheap. And most people aren't aware how fast you can cook potatoes in a microwave or that kale tastes fine with dressing.
Edit: Potatoes are high calorie. Top with oil.
Ubuntu desktop... I tried multiple times across multiple decades, I've given up.
Not sure what Windows issues exist outside licences disappearing upon reformatting. But that's still exponentially cheaper to fix then any Apple product.
I know people talk about finance classes in schools, but I think we urgently need marketing classes. Companies have entire departments learning how to exploit your psychology and if you haven't seen the basics of marketing, you are ripe for pickings.
Sure you might have a few benefits, but you must deal with unavoidable pains at every turn.
Individuals will never have political power like a billion dollar corporation.
If you can rise up the ranks, you get some of this power.
Sure it's a moonshot, but how many self made people make billion dollar companies? You could count them.
I think I'm going to pick a major fortune 500 and leach off it. Even if I hang around there for 30 years, I get profits and tax payers will subsidize the losses.