[ExI] morality

[Tara Maya]

In general, freedom is a strategy which always has the worst short term outcomes, yet the best long term outcomes.

People don't learn the responsibility to make the right choices until they've had the freedom to make the wrong choices.



> On May 19, 2023, at 8:08 AM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2023, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
> 
>> It is clear that in some cases profit leads to bad results.
>> 
>> BillK
>> 
> 
> But I'd like to add to that three things which are often forgotten in
> these types of discussions.
> 
> 1. There's short term and long term profit.
> 
> 2. Markets act over time.
> 
> 3. In many countries, we are in fact not looking at a free market. It is
> a market controlled by the state.
> 
> Now, I'm not saying which ones apply or do not apply to the above
> discussion about the US health care system, but there you go.
> 
> As a personal anecdote I can add that the swedish public healthcare
> system is in free fall. You can wait years for operations, people are
> sent home misdiagnosed and die from time to time, if you need to go to
> the emergency room, you can easily wait for 8-12 hours and so on.
> 
> This is coupled with a 60%+ tax rate.
> 
> So rich people are starting to buy private health insurance, and the
> previous government then introduced a tax penalty on people who buy
> private health insurance in order to "equalized" health care and avoid
> that rich people can get past the queue.
> 
> You gotta love politics sometimes! ;)
> 
> Best regards, Daniel
> 
> 
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