Finally someone notices that we're being promised the meat and the milk from the same cowpic.twitter.com/avEy7u1K5J
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As far as I go — I think the US needs to practice much greater fiscal responsibility, not only re: spending but also in how it regulates consumer markets for e.g. healthcare, education, & financing for both. But I also agree with the left that our safety net is far too narrow.
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What we need are politicians willing to empower the rare experts who deeply understand the labyrinthian healthcare & education systems we've created, who can overcome bias to see where costs have been allowed to bloat & who will be doggedly honest in their assessments & proposals
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There's also a ton of object-level work that needs to be done re: re-aligning the safety net — for example, clarifying *precisely* what we're trying to accomplish with disability & figuring out ways to allow disabled people to do limited work/volunteering without losing benefits
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but I'm sympathetic to the folks who think gov involvement just warps the incentives of communities that would otherwise take care of each other just fine, & I'm sympathetic to those who've been struggling for so long that they just want someone to really commit to their problems
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Cost bloat = bread and butter of rentiers. We didn't get here by accident, and incentives are very strong to stay on the same trajectory
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Entrusting technocrats to do anything but abuse regulatory power and entrench their own interests is the fool's errand that got us here
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I think if we sat down and doggedly searched, we might discover zero incentives to support this. And current incentives appear intrinsic to the systems we have.
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We love the excessive regulation of the healthcare space. It allows us to hire the people who deliver true value to our nation's ill: middle managers Our administrator to doctor ratio continues to skyrocket so we can hit arbitrary quality metrics and aid our bottom line!
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