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Re: Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy)

 by Dr House ¦  24 Jun 2016 17:32 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy) ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 1566

:lol:

Re: Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy)

 by Dr House ¦  24 Jun 2016 16:57 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy) ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 1566

As I said in another thread, when you believe someone will do a good job by default, that's the perfect cover for them to not do their jobs at all. I trust corporations more than the government because people don't trust them. As a default, people don't like having to meet high standards. They need ...

Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy)

 by Dr House ¦  24 Jun 2016 15:11 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Pound Scum (how the government killed a stray puppy) ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 1566

https://fee.org/articles/pound-scum/ With 7.5 million dogs and cats euthanized each year in U.S. animal shelters, it’s hard to be turned down when you try to save one from the gas chamber. But my family managed to be turned down, making us “pound scum.” Our trip through the world of dog adoptions an...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 23:57 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

yiostheoy wrote:Saeko is saying that you are a rebel and an anarchist.

I can't disagree with that.

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 23:44 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

There's nothing voluntary about it.

Don't believe me? Try not paying your taxes. Ring up the IRS (or equivalent) and say, "yeah I'm opting out of this 'government' thing. I won't draw any benefits or pay any taxes. Thank you!" See how that goes.

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 22:22 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

So wait, you're saying that if we don't put our faith in the Free Market it won't work, and if we do put our faith in the Free Market it will? No I'm saying people are fettered by the rules. If society insists on living by the government's rules, it will remain fettered. Can you post a source for t...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 21:58 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

People are simply far more likely to die from having access to "medication" that can kill them. And don't give me this cost bullshit. If people were dying because they were unable to afford medicine in a Truly Free Market you wouldn't give a shit. We would just hear the same old excuse of...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 20:37 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

The Immortal Goon wrote:Yes...That was a sarcastic post by me.

But you probably thought I wasn't aware of it, hence the sarcasm.

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 20:24 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

Obviously. And, of course, there is absolutely no incentive at all to sell legitimate sounding cheap junk at high prices to desperate people. There's plenty of incentive to do that. Offset by the incentive to 1) preserve a reputation (a tall order for corporations, unlike the government, precisely ...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 20:01 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

People can also die from not having access to a medication that can save them. Which can happen because the medicine is awaiting approval. Or it can happen because the medicine costs 10 times as much as it would otherwise, due to the cost of approval. People will say it's durr eevul pharmaceuticals'...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 19:44 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

90%+ of treatments don't get approved because they either don't work or their effects are far worse than the disease. :eh: I don't actually trust the government to decide that. This is the fundamental disconnect. The government doesn't have an incentive to do its job, only to maintain the appearanc...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 19:33 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

Here's the thing: It's estimated that about 10 million will die of superbugs in the next decade (many doubtlessly victims of India's pharmaceutical boom), which sounds like a big scary number until you realize that's between 1 and 2% of all people that will ever die. Many, many more would die instea...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 19:19 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

How many people did Rofecoxib kill before being withdrawn? Estimates say 88,000 to 144,000 cases of heart disease -- something the FDA couldn't and didn't prevent, because the information was withheld. Meanwhile about a million and a half people have died from diseases that would have been prevented...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 19:11 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

No one has any issues with making the approvals process for new drugs more efficient (besides existing patent holders, obv...) provided safety isn't compromised. This is exactly the problem. In the name of safety, the FDA and other regulatory agencies have taken an overly cautious tack, because pre...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 18:32 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

There is another side of the money problem--some treatments don't make money. Chelating iron is one of the most effective things we can do for human health and degenerative disease, but iron chelators are dirt cheap non-drugs like dairy, coffee, tea, red wine, and curcumin. How is that a money prob...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 18:10 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

Relying on theoretical developments in science and technology and ignoring things that we can do now seems rather foolhardy. Right. Are you gonna tell a sick man in India who can't work and feed his family unless he gets cured, that he can't have medicine unless he pays a doctor first? Dave would p...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 18:06 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

How do you suggest we obsolete antibiotics? The only plausible avenues I can think of are bacteriophages or gene editing. Nanotech and metals. Possibly other solutions that we haven't even thought of. There's also a money problem with bacteriophages because you can't patent a virus, so who's going ...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 17:43 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

Researchers, via obsoleting antibiotics. In general, the way virtually every problem with previous techniques and technologies has been eradicated has been by obsoleting them. The government has a vested interest in standing directly in the way of this process, since technological solutions obsolete...

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 17:37 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

We should try to stop superbugs. The government should not, because unintended consequences + the inherent danger of putting megalomaniacs in charge of doing anything for you.

Re: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life

 by Dr House ¦  23 Jun 2016 17:32 ¦  Forum: Economics & Capitalism ¦  Topic: Ditch College, Get a Real Skill, Live a Good Life ¦  Replies: 86 ¦  Views: 7406

Dave wrote:Lunatic statements like that are why libertarians are not taken seriously.

Superbugs totally fine because we'll muddle through it...okay. :knife:

Pretty sure Stalin killed more people than every superbug combined.

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