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

[Brent Allsop]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 7:58 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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 *
>

If it isn't too expensive yet, it soon will be, perhaps by the end of this
year.  The number and price of expensive procedures that make our lives
unimaginably healthy are exploding exponentially.  As I said living forever
isn't cheap, but it is worth it.  We're going to have to give up many
luxuries in life we can afford now, to be able to afford better and longer
health.  Except of course for a few rich people.  For the
foreseeable future, we need to find a way to ration it in all countries for
the majority of people.

We stab at the symptoms of this fundamental problem (like blaming and
assassinating insurance company leaders, and building walls against 3rd
world countries) but society will have ever greater problems unless we
address the core issue of rationing healthcare, at least until it is
completely automated for everyone, including all 3rd world countries.
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