[ExI] Why is “cost of living” such a big problem?

[John Clark]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

 * > Medical care is too expensive for the government to carry,*


*According to you medical care for its population is too expensive for the
US government to carry but for some mysterious reason it's NOT too
expensive for the government of Japan to carry even though they have more
debt than the US does, and I could say the same thing about a dozen other
rich (although not richer than the US) countries in Asia and Europe. But
you are absolutely convinced that we could learn absolutely nothing from
foreign countries because they are, after all, foreign. *

*Spike, you've entered a strange place. It is the middle ground between
light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the
pit of man's fears and the summit of his ignorance. That's the signpost up
ahead—your next stop, the Right Wing Twilight Zone.*


*John K Clark*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20261103/b2d94818/attachment.htm>