Free market health care is NOT the most economically efficient.

A free market only functions when both parties have approximately equal negotiating power, are fully informed and not under threat.

By its nature, healthcare decisions are almost always made under threat of a cost to ones health or life, and since the alternative is to die, the victim...patient has no negotiating power.

It is if you park near the focus point of one of the parabolic death ray buildings.

The patches for these issues are intentionally withheld from their products until you encounter them, many of them have existed and have patches for them for several years. Its intentionally crippled code.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Not entirely true these days.

decompiling any code will not inspire confidence. Decompilation doesn't necessarily reproduce the original code.

As opposed to Oracle error codes that are documented as "Please contact Oracle support", for shit they know about and have a patch ready for but they have you over the coals and want to extort a couple hundred grand from you.

I've literally driven a buggy of goods up to the CSM monitoring the self checkout and told him that he lost a sale today because they were unable to provide a checkout clerk.

And self checkout does not save time. Each item scans slower, bagging is problematic, and it randomly halts requiring assistance.

I've bagged groceries before. I could do it 10 or 20 times faster than the maximum allowed by the self scan station.

Or maybe Sandra Bullock used way to much hair gel and it was too rigid to float around.

I feel the same way about self checkout lines.

People with average competence still deserve to earn to earn a living. They may not be able to demand a 40% pay increase, but making ends meet isn't unexpected.

The only reason I get to decide how much I get payed is that I work in an industry with a real unemployment rate around 4%, I am lucky enough to have high quality skills, intelligence, and the work experience to show I am worth the investment.

Most people don't work in that kind of field, and most people have more or less average competence, and many of them lack experience that demonstrates their capabilities. I am lucky as hell to be able to act participate equally in the job market. Most people have no such luxury and are struggling just to make ends meet, accepting less than they are worth, and then working twice as much just hoping to hold on and keep their family off the street.

That is only true in an ignorantly simple approximation of the market, assuming all players are fully informed, without deception, fully rational and possess roughly equivalent negotiating power. That approximation is about as far from reality as you can get for the low end job market.

Capital gains tax in the US is functionally the same as income tax, at a lower rate.

And no, increases in the tax rate of capital gains does NOT at all hinder the economy.

In fact the only tax cut PROVEN to stimulate economy is the corporate tax rate.

All other data points to most other tax cuts having no effect or a negative effect on the economy with the exception of taxes near or below the poverty level.

Almost everything washes out in bright light.