Yeah I guess the kind of Single Payer model I prefer can be conceptualised as "insurance." But it feels more like health care is taxpayer funded. The similarity to insurance is just details for the detail nerds.
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I thought we were talking about voice calls here.
Same thing with medical insurance. It shouldn't exist but it pays a lot of people's salaries.
I can't remember if it was Matt Parker or Tom Scott who did a thing about this on youtube, and I think the answer was no, they just use whatever method is easiest to get these numbers, and they're not even using a consistent methodology from one country to the next.
Why though? Glover is cool.
That's fine, I won't even see it until somebody asks me on slack if I saw their email.
Reminds me of the KSP2 fiasco. Management insisting on reusing the engine from the old game, and firing all the senior devs who could have told them there was no possibility of getting the features they'd announced to work without rewriting the engine from scratch.
Teach them to drink responsibly while they still want to hang out with you when you're drinking. Prohibition until 21 just encourages binge drinking.
The inevitable outcome of this was documented in a research paper by Joe Haldeman entitled The Forever War.
I thought he was agreeing with you.
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In 20 or so years, when there are more voters unable to buy houses than there are voters who own houses, this should autocorrect.
The recent US trend of corporations buying up real estate to rent out is very scary because it will prevent this autocorrection.