If we deal with it, how is it a threat to civilization?
Snow covered roads are a threat to transportation. We plow the roads.
Moldy food is a threat to health. We don't eat it.
The unaffordability of health care is due to government meddling. Mandatory coverage of sex change operations raises insurance prices. Mandatory requirements for medical doctors and artificial limit of the supply of doctors raises medical care prices. Mandatory insurance raises prices because somebody has to pay the wages of insurance company employees. Government control of the pharmaceutical industry means markups in excess of 200,000% on some drugs. And on, and on, and on.
If there were a free market in health care, people could contract for what they need, either by gambling (insurance) or directly. Prices would plummet.
I also believe strongly that most jobs are simply not worth paying a proper salary for
A job not worth paying for is a job not worth doing; it's something the result of which is less than the resources consumed in doing it. It's not worth doing; it's a drain on humanity. It's something that should not be done.It's something that will be done, over and over, if government controls the economy.
The same sort of foolishness pervades the rest of your post.
If the false positive rate is 18%, and 25% of people will get Alzheimer's, and it says you have it, there is approximately a 25 in 18 chance that you have it.
Most towns have historical societies, many of which have boxes full of fading photographs. Digitizing those photos is something they should be doing. As a bonus, a lot of fading can be undone with free software.
We're not at the physical limits yet. The present problem is that we don't yet have a technology to make mass produced smaller scale complex circuits; the problem is not that smaller circuits are impossible or won't work.
That $5 trillion figure is astonishingly dishonest. "Global warming" is given a number and counted as a subsidy, so is pollution generally. Although it's hidden, it appears that the cost of roads is also counted as a fossil fuel subsidy, as if roads wouldn't be needed if vehicles ran on pixie dust.
Civilization is inextricably tied to energy use, and energy technology has a history that is in large part necessary. Pretending that the limits of practical available technology constitute a subsidy is a subterfuge.
An ideal system would promote and reward altruistic qualities like
Altruism - "selfless devotion to the welfare of others" - is not a good thing. It is self-destructive, and self-destruction is the root of all evil.
love
"I love you. So now you must reward me. Give me ten dollars." Love is an emotion, it has no objective value. It is entirely subjective, and the reward is entirely internal to the loving person.
compassion
has no measurable value. How do you reward what can't even vaguely be measured?
cooperation
is a good thing, and benefits both parties. It's not altruistic.
leadership
is at best a mixed value. Stalin was a leader. Leaders and followers are mutually parasitic; it's not a healthy relation. The ideal human is independent.
protection
OK, here's a good thing. How does it have to be altruistic?
and education.
and another good thing, but again altruism need not be involved. Many people pay for education and others are paid to educate. People can educate themselves.
Capitalism rewards excellence only when it helps those with money
A baseless claim. Capitalism is freedom viewed from an economic perspective. It does not provide rewards, it allows people to reward themselves by limiting the damage that government can do to them.
That's just so funny, and so stupid. First, the planet is not a living thing, it can't be in jeopardy. Second, overpopulation isn't going to send the Earth hurtling into the sun. It is currently beyond the capability of even a determinedly evil and self-destructive humanity to destroy the Earth.
Internet access is free at most public libraries. Some even keep a free wifi running 24/7. You'll claim this is too much of a burden for the poor, won't you?
Nobody is paying scientists to prove something or another.
You made a funny.
Ever hear of tobacco, freon, or tetraethyl lead?
Are you unaware of the practices of the pharmaceutical industry that for about a century has been paying scientists to prove that "natural" cures and supplements don't work?
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Perhaps we need more grade-school English teachers.
If we deal with it, how is it a threat to civilization?
Snow covered roads are a threat to transportation. We plow the roads.
Moldy food is a threat to health. We don't eat it.
The enemies of humanity keep promoting this hoax.
The unaffordability of health care is due to government meddling. Mandatory coverage of sex change operations raises insurance prices. Mandatory requirements for medical doctors and artificial limit of the supply of doctors raises medical care prices. Mandatory insurance raises prices because somebody has to pay the wages of insurance company employees. Government control of the pharmaceutical industry means markups in excess of 200,000% on some drugs. And on, and on, and on.
If there were a free market in health care, people could contract for what they need, either by gambling (insurance) or directly. Prices would plummet.
Productivity is production per working person. As long as there isn't total industrial collapse, fewer working people implies no drop in productivity.
Teachers at many private institutions don't need degrees.
A job not worth paying for is a job not worth doing; it's something the result of which is less than the resources consumed in doing it. It's not worth doing; it's a drain on humanity. It's something that should not be done. It's something that will be done, over and over, if government controls the economy.
The same sort of foolishness pervades the rest of your post.
Just who do you think is filling those wastebaskets? Robots?
If the false positive rate is 18%, and 25% of people will get Alzheimer's, and it says you have it, there is approximately a 25 in 18 chance that you have it.
I don't think so.
There is at least a 2:1 difference in Alzheimer's incidence between bad and good diets. A good diet will also slow progression of the disease.
Most towns have historical societies, many of which have boxes full of fading photographs. Digitizing those photos is something they should be doing. As a bonus, a lot of fading can be undone with free software.
The AM2900 was a bitslice chipset. Not the same thing.
We're not at the physical limits yet. The present problem is that we don't yet have a technology to make mass produced smaller scale complex circuits; the problem is not that smaller circuits are impossible or won't work.
Intel and AMD have nearly identical price/sales.
The hope is that fuel for a fusion reactor is cheap.
We don't know that the waste won't be considered very valuable 200 years from now. We might want to keep it somewhere convenient, like Yucca Mountain.
What we will have is Consolidated Fusion. Yes, just as Consolidated Edison is known as ConEd, we'll have ConFusion.
That $5 trillion figure is astonishingly dishonest. "Global warming" is given a number and counted as a subsidy, so is pollution generally. Although it's hidden, it appears that the cost of roads is also counted as a fossil fuel subsidy, as if roads wouldn't be needed if vehicles ran on pixie dust.
Civilization is inextricably tied to energy use, and energy technology has a history that is in large part necessary. Pretending that the limits of practical available technology constitute a subsidy is a subterfuge.
Do you understand what you write?
Altruism - "selfless devotion to the welfare of others" - is not a good thing. It is self-destructive, and self-destruction is the root of all evil.
"I love you. So now you must reward me. Give me ten dollars." Love is an emotion, it has no objective value. It is entirely subjective, and the reward is entirely internal to the loving person.
has no measurable value. How do you reward what can't even vaguely be measured?
is a good thing, and benefits both parties. It's not altruistic.
is at best a mixed value. Stalin was a leader. Leaders and followers are mutually parasitic; it's not a healthy relation. The ideal human is independent.
OK, here's a good thing. How does it have to be altruistic?
and another good thing, but again altruism need not be involved. Many people pay for education and others are paid to educate. People can educate themselves.
A baseless claim. Capitalism is freedom viewed from an economic perspective. It does not provide rewards, it allows people to reward themselves by limiting the damage that government can do to them.
It is well documented historical fact that the Ku Klux Klan is the military branch of the Democratic Party.
Thanks so much. That's a fascinating article.
That's just so funny, and so stupid. First, the planet is not a living thing, it can't be in jeopardy. Second, overpopulation isn't going to send the Earth hurtling into the sun. It is currently beyond the capability of even a determinedly evil and self-destructive humanity to destroy the Earth.
I doubt that the money is enough to pay for heating bills.
Internet access is free at most public libraries. Some even keep a free wifi running 24/7. You'll claim this is too much of a burden for the poor, won't you?
You made a funny.
Ever hear of tobacco, freon, or tetraethyl lead?
Are you unaware of the practices of the pharmaceutical industry that for about a century has been paying scientists to prove that "natural" cures and supplements don't work?