Message from @fallot
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putting all the food production of one country
you can declaer something a right or even better
a policy
under control of one bureaucracy / system
It's not absurd
but unless it works it wont get anywhere
is a bad idea for efficiency reasons
and that's how it worked out in the soviet shit I think you are referring to
you candeclare "OUR POLICY IS THAT EVERONE HAS ACCESS TO QUALITY FOOD" but unless you can make it work, its another gesture
and you cant
however is it in principle a bad idea for government to have some degree of food production as a safety net or plan for black swan event?
absolutely not
i mean you can to extent to which you have material foundation for it
production or storage
Just curious, can a doctor operate a private practice in the Uk ?
not like the US, but yes
it's bad though
What i'm suggesting is not that absurd, fallot. Our system is already highly concentrated at the very top - the sickest 1% or so account for like 40-50% of our healthcare costs. If we move to guarantee treatment as a right we're looking at an enormous tax burden increase.
I can't simply by myself open up a clinic where I see patients
today's food situation is a typical example of what happens when standards replace reality
we have tons of surplus food that according to "standards" is healthy
and even acessible
but it just sucks
@UOC from what I've heard expanding medical to everyone would be around 20 trillion
Medicare
communist countries with heavy industry and nuclear power plants had *better* food than in capitalism
because food was decomodified
this is false
but it was lacking
and hence the problem
its simply not true
what you just said
go third path instead
fake news!
i mean "better"
take it with a doze of flexibility
it was less industrialized
it's the slogan of the other side