Comments by "Al Loomis" (@alloomis1635) on "Allowing Predatory Private Insurance to Exist Is Insanity" video.
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answer: in a plutocracy, everything has a price. in a democracy, the will of the people directs public activity, through referendum and initiative. in a plutocracy, everything is for sale, even people. initially as slaves, then as wage workers, finally with pacification allowance, see 'ubi.'
meanwhile, at the top, people are so rich that ordinary expenses are meaningless, a life has meaning only in the status of the great numbers reported in fortune magazine.
madison would be proud. he put off the collapse of slavery but knew it would end, he created a society safe for wealth, even in its declining days.
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