Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Lawrence: ‘We Became Anti-Intellectual About Socialism’" video.

  1. It is legitimately stunning. The only detail he got wrong is that the US is roughly in the middle of the spectrum, but everything else is dead on and almost exactly how I would have phrased it. Give the man some applause and hope he doesn't get fired for pissing off the advertisers
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  2. The only thing he got wrong is saying that the US was a roughly evenly balanced mixed economy (that would be a Nordic-style mixed economy). The rest was honesty so accurate that it stunned me to see it on a MSM US TV news show. The US is about as extreme on Capitalism as China is on "communism" with the extremes being countries like Somalia and Cuba, and one of the multiple ways to achieve a balance in the middle being the Nordic countries.
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  3. Welcome to the remaining Cold War propaganda poisoning this country where people equate everything left of anarchocapitalism with totalitarianism because of fear of the USSR (which no longer exists).
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  4. Robert Hills fair point
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  5. The hilarious part: public roads are socialism.
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  6. Chander S it's funny because most people don't know that the road system amounts to socialism. You're wrong about healthcare though. Single-payer systems provide better outcomes at lower cost than our system. That's just objective fact. It's an industry with inelastic demand which benefits the whole of society for everyone to have access to and is arguably infrastructure. That's exactly the kind of thing that tends to do better when run by the government. (Also, where we have inelastic demand, we would expect to see exponentially increasing costs, which is exactly what we see for healthcare) The insurance part is the worst as, unlike other types of insurance, there's little incentives they can create for behavior change that are more significant than risks to one's health, and there're no real efficiency gains to be made. That means the only ways the health insurance "industy" can look to to seriously increase profits are making people think they are getting better coverage than they are, arbitrary denying coverage based on arcane rationalizations, flat out denying the chronically ill coverage/making it prohibitively expensive (which thankfully the ACA greatly cut back), and charging more to let the rich cut in line over those with greater need for immediate treatment. None of those are good for consumers as a whole. We're much better off just pooling money through taxes and paying for it that way as the government doesn't need to make a profit. To top it off, we're only talking about socializing health insurance while leaving the rest of the healthcare industry very privatized, which is hardly even an extreme position, especially in light of superior systems out there doing just that. You could go much further and still have a healthcare industy that still had a lot of capitalism in the mix.
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  7. Chander S I'm not even touching that pile of logical fallacies. Nice try moving the goalpost, but I'm not biting.
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