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6 days agoIf the essentials of life are all shifted to “welfare capitalism” the power of class and capital to subjugate is greatly diminished. Add in mass union membership and it gets even better.
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Not really. It’s entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.
To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn’t profitable, you can’t just give up. That person’s life is more important than profit.
People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.
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I’ve seen enough HGTV to know the answer is always shiplap.
7·21 days agoAmusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.
The idea that eating carrots helps your eyesight came from WW2 Britain. It was an intentionally spread lie to cover up for the fact that they had radar.
There are scholarships for people with POTS and disautonomic disorders. Get your grades up and work towards going away to college.
You’ve probably already tried this, but TrizULTRA + Keto flush worked wonders for my dogs persistent ear itching.
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Just squirt in a bunch of the liquid, massage behind the ear for 30 seconds, let your cat shake its head, then wipe the ear with a clean soft towel. Do that daily for a week and it hopefully will make a big difference. Then you can do the rinse weekly or even monthly after that to maintain.
Depends on the group. Iroquois houses were communal but Pueblo were more like townhomes. Other groups, like the Mississippian culture built individual homes.
Because they built houses. It’s not like white people invented the idea of home ownership.
The Pueblo, Iroquois, and other non-nomadic Native American groups might disagree about the colonialism part.
A lot of people are saying immortality, but keep in mind that doesn’t necessarily include being unaging or invincible. You could age into a decrepit mummy or break your spine and live your life as a paraplegic.
That depends on the definition of comfortably and happy. Everyone probably couldn’t live at the level of an upper middle class American, for example.
Protoceratops because I am completely convinced they would be cool hanging out on the couch, playing fetch, and otherwise acting like a dinosaur house pet.
I suppose you believe the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is democratic too.
It may not seem cheap at first, but 3D printing. What it costs to set up, you can quickly make up by not having to spend money on things you can just print for yourself. There are loads of little plastic parts that break that cost a fortune to replace. I’ve done new shelf brackets for my fridge and new locking clips for my windows for example. On top of that I’ve printed loads of presents for people. My mom can’t stop talking about the windmill I printed for her deck.