Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "The Why Minutes " channel.

@kennethmacalpin7655 _My point is that "Socialism doesn't work" is used as a Straw Man argument _ I want a system like Denmark". Then you'll say "Denmark isn't socialist, it's capitalist. Well I don't care what you call it" What you're looking for is a capitalistic country that gives a lot of social benefits. However, the issue is that this type of government only works because the population and economies are relatively small and homogeneous. Denmark has an economy of roughly the same size as Wisconsin ($401M v $406M) and an ethnic mix of 86% Danish. Which works very well because everybody is probably a 2nd or 3rd cousin to everybody else in the country. And they only support one language, Danish. None of this will work in a country much larger than Denmark.
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@johndiss Well, name a successful socialist country.
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@josephnebeker7976 In universal healthcare, the smart doctors head to the United States where they'll make far more money. There can only be one best doctor in the world, and he/she is not working for $60K in some government hospital.
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@kennethmacalpin7655 You do understand in the US, most workers are covered by comprehensive health care insurance and most have access to world-class healthcare almost immediately, even for specialties and cancer treatments. As workers retire they effectively go to a one-payer system paid for by taxes they themselves have paid in, and they can be supplemented by private insurance as well.
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The usual EV fanatic will say why do you need to travel that far anyway? When I travel I stop every 150 miles to stretch my legs and get something to eat. There's no way you can do 400 miles without stopping, because I've never been able to do it. And anyway, EVs will be able to go 1000 miles soon, Tesla has he greatest engineers, they're the leaders and they're working on new battery technology and will probably be there next year It's mainly a bunch of rationalizations about how they use EVs and if you use them differently, you're either lying or you're doing it wrong.
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@TonyShepps Can you break down where those $7T of subsidies came from say.... last year? It's not the accelerated depletion allowance; that was stopped 30 years ago. Curious where you get your $7T figure and have you questioned how a subsidy can be bigger than twice the entire US budget? Who exactly is subsidizing it, since it's not the US government based on the figure you gave.
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Lithium batteries are a problem. Pound for pound, they only deliver 1/10th the power of gasoline.
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When government picks winners and losers, the not only distort the market, they've doomed the EV market for the long run because no manufacturer is incentivized to make EVs profitable. Why bother if the taxpayers are picking up the tab?
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@dropian Profit and competition is a good thing. The problem is nobody's competing. And the government mandates they shouldn't compete. Every medical providers should be required to have a standard set of services with prices listed. The problem with government providing anything is there's no impetus to provide better service, and there's no competition, so prices never go down. So as medical costs go up, they don't cut government employees, they cut services, and they know you may complain, but you're not going anywhere because you're forced to use them.
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@dropian _You don't stay a medical doctor for the money _ That's funny. That's like saying people don't get MBA's for money. Or they don't go into computer science for the money. The fields that pay the best attract the smartest people. If Doctors are paid $60K a year, you'll either get 3rd world doctors, or the equivalent of an average automobile worker making life and death decisions about you. Doctors do have a standard of set services and that is quite literally ingrained into their code of ethics when you become a doctor Ethics and a standard list prices for services are two completely different things. You can be as ethical as JC of Nazareth, and say "we don't charge a standard rate, it's all negotiable depending on how much business we do with each other".
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@SaintNyx The end state of socialism is communism, which claims as true communism is achievedthe state goes away. Either that, or the people come to their senses and throw the socialists out of power as happened in Sweden.
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The obvious problem is windmills fail about every 12 years and have to be replaced. Like the batteries.
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@andyman8630 You could flip the windmill around so it generates power and pushes the car along so you don't run out of battery.
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Socialism has to be authoritarian because it cannot tolerate people ignoring it. OTOH, if you want to be a socialist in a capitalist economy, nobody cares, because you're putting yourself at a significant disadvantage.
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Why The Middle East Won’t Accept Palestinian Refugees It's sort of a rhetorical question, isn't it?
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DucknCoverin ...people had to still keep and feed a horse so it could fart into bottles to make their cars go. No different than relying on fossil fuels to power EVs Yes, farting into a bottle is exactly the same as going to a gas station to fill up your car. One can see that clearly. You're a master of analogies.
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@zoransarin5411 The big breakthroughs in lithium battery range have been made. Any EV with a lithium battery should be considered first generation. Fantastic compared with the lead-acid EVs of 30 years go, and a great around-town car, but not up to the standard set by gas/diesel cars.
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@zoransarin5411 It's really not. The next administration will largely ignore it, as will other countries, since it's primarily the far east countries doing the bulk of the polluting. You probably don't realize that to get to zero carbon, we'd have to stop most farming, give up the convenience of modern life, and in general pretend like it's 1850 again. Good luck selling that to the public.
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