Okay. I hear what you're saying, but I'm gonna disagree partially, and I think (ironically?) our Constitution's preamble has the key: "provide for the common Defence, and promote the general Welfare." *Promote*, not *provide*.
It is totally part of the social contract of any functioning community that one takes care of one's own. HOWEVER. When you get something with freakin' 300 MILLION people in it, you know as well as I do that you can't do one size fits all.
So.
We say, "Okay, medicine must be non-profit. We will accredit non-profit orgs to do medicine, and we will accredit schools to teach medicine, and we will encourage people to become doctors and nurses and techs and such like, but there will always be multiples of each, and people can choose who they go to.... but we're not doing medicine *directly*."
Because some things - fire departments, roads, schools, *medicine*... simply *won't get done* if you leave it to volunteers. But you're right, a lot of people don't trust the gooberment, and for good reason.
.... which is why we need to re-make the whole damn thing in the first place, but that's kinda outta scope here...
To go all the way back to the original culprit, Mickey Da'esh? I think that's gonna solve itself. The whole $15 minimum wage thing has been in place for a while, and it's actually *doing some good*, measurably, right here in Puget City... that's gonna take off. And when people can actually afford to pay for stuff, and they're not turning over jobs like hotcakes, then they'll have room left in their profit structure to actually serve decent food. (They've actually been starting to do it here in Salishia! they're having to compete on *quality*, because folks can afford to go elsewhere...)
It's a long damn road. But Confucius say longest journey start with single step... and we're already a couple hundred yards in.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well...
Date: 2017-06-14 08:31 pm (UTC)It is totally part of the social contract of any functioning community that one takes care of one's own. HOWEVER. When you get something with freakin' 300 MILLION people in it, you know as well as I do that you can't do one size fits all.
So.
We say, "Okay, medicine must be non-profit. We will accredit non-profit orgs to do medicine, and we will accredit schools to teach medicine, and we will encourage people to become doctors and nurses and techs and such like, but there will always be multiples of each, and people can choose who they go to.... but we're not doing medicine *directly*."
Because some things - fire departments, roads, schools, *medicine*... simply *won't get done* if you leave it to volunteers. But you're right, a lot of people don't trust the gooberment, and for good reason.
.... which is why we need to re-make the whole damn thing in the first place, but that's kinda outta scope here...
To go all the way back to the original culprit, Mickey Da'esh? I think that's gonna solve itself. The whole $15 minimum wage thing has been in place for a while, and it's actually *doing some good*, measurably, right here in Puget City... that's gonna take off. And when people can actually afford to pay for stuff, and they're not turning over jobs like hotcakes, then they'll have room left in their profit structure to actually serve decent food. (They've actually been starting to do it here in Salishia! they're having to compete on *quality*, because folks can afford to go elsewhere...)
It's a long damn road. But Confucius say longest journey start with single step... and we're already a couple hundred yards in.