Breaking the employer/healthcare connection does not necessarily mean embracing a government/healthcare connection. Another option is establishing a family/healthcare connection where the worker pays. In general what the company would have paid for a worker's healthcare gets put into the workers salary and the worker buys their own healthcare. Why is this helpful? Because the worker is now the customer choosing a provider and buying a service, rather than a corporation or government. If corporations pay, then healthcare is designed to service corporations. If government pays, then healthcare is designed to service government. In both case the worker is a secondary consideration. If workers pay, then healthcare will be designed to service workers. Having a corporate or government middleman degrades service.
Interesting concept but wouldn't the cost still be put back onto the "real" customer? In this I mean the public who purchase the product or service that the corporations produce. The employee is just 'one' and the cost of this one's healthcare is placed onto the back of the general public including those who have already provided for their own care. It appears to just be Socialism in everyway but name.
The arrogant condescending sanctimonious judgemental aura and unrealistic "just don't have a problem, just don't do anything other than spend your every waking second on your kids, problem solved, why can't people just be perfect citizens like me" (without considering that you grew up in an almost completely different world than the current generation) and generally being an obnoxious stuck up cunt on slashdot, these things are all consistent with being a conservative right winger. So I naturally jumped to that conclusion in the same way you would conclude that you'll end up with nothing if you buy a lottery ticket.
Ahhhh, you're one of "those". I'm very sorry that you did not succeed in life, but truly, it isn't anyone's fault but your own. I realize that you were raised believing that you are the absolute greatest thing in history, but that was just something your mommy told you because she loved you. It's not true. Suck it up buttercup and be an adult. Get your shit together and quit blaming the "almost different world than the current generation" for your failure to thrive. Just some helpful advise from someone old enough to have garnered a bit of life experience.
> If you can not afford kids or you do not want to put in the effort, then don't have them, it's that simple.
So then, you're in favour of sex education and abortion rights to prevent unplanned unwanted pregnancies, right?
Absolutely! I'm not a conservative right winger by any stretch of the imagination. That you automatically jumped to that conclusion lessens you.
but don't be too quick to blame other parents.
I completely disagree. Once you have children, that is then your life. As a parent your "job" is to raise the kids to be productive, well adjusted, adults and nothing else. This BS of "still having a life" after you decide to have kids is a generational thing and it needs to weeded out of our culture. It started with my generation (late "boomers") and has only gotten worse with each subsequent distracted generation. If you can not afford kids or you do not want to put in the effort, then don't have them, it's that simple.
Oh summer child,, if you think this is peak wrong, you are not going to like the effects of selling weapons grade plutonium to random countries.
Sudden peace might descend, as various countries would become able to defend themselves against U.S. invasions?
What color is the sky in you imaginary world?
Unless Trump's ready to abandon the problem he created and just let Iran have its way, the that situation isn't coming to a conclusion any time soon. And since Trump can't be trusted to honour anything he says, or signs, someone else will have to fix it after he's left office.
Like he's ever going to leave. He'll declare himself president for life or maybe Emperor, that sounds grander after all.
Well, you just said flat out, user pays $150/month in lieu of ISP+power.
Note that last month my ISP+Power was less than $100/month (thanks to solar offsetting it).
Since all new homes in Ca now require solar be installed, this sounds pretty dodgy. Plus how large is this installation? Plus there will be an easement preventing you from doing anything within a certain area of the installation and to provide access from the street for any repairs/upgrades. I expect this to plan to fail quickly. Personally, I think the answer to the power issue is to eliminate the need for giant AI data centers all together.
Earth is a beta site.
