Kinda like how Americans have never heard of one their greatest intellectuals, Noam Chomsky. Who, come to think of it, recognizes that the truths he points out about how the world works are so generally unknown that most people would think it’s like hearing “news from Neptune.”

I learned something new today, thanks.

It not only brings GDP up, but also makes it easier for speculators to achieve their profit goals (albeit at the expense of people going hungry in some part of the world or destroying the economies of countries).

pray tell, how do all these innocent parties get tricked out of their money by these nefarious devils?

Since you asked… Here it is in devilish detail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwX_soZ1GI

Be sure and watch the entire interview if you’d truly like to educate yourself here.  It gets more damning as it goes.

With such positive assurance, I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t throw away a dependable, if uncertain, source of income in pursuit of that entrepreneurial dream that is all but likely to fail within the first five to ten years.  Feeding kids and paying rent is no excuse for not following your dreams, right?

People who face ill treatment deserve it because they allow it. Look at my examples of people who refused to allow it.

Followed by a quote from Henry Ford -

“History is more or less bunk.” Henry Ford, Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916.

what do you people do for a living?! get out of there! there are actually some businesses in existence where the boss is not carrying a whip or cattle prod, beating the slaves into submission!

the article posted just before this one about the volcano tours is about some people who took a chance and started their own business. are they desperate and fearful?

the article after, is by an independent cartoonist. who’s beating him down, keeping him in line?

cory got out. all the other happy mutants got out. if it’s so bad, maybe just maybe, with an idea, a little work, some luck, you can too!                 

in the words of Henry Ford (one of those evil capitalists):

“If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, either way, you’re right.”

your healthcare provider is from the government.

You’re confusing Obama/Romneycare with single payer, which would be much better actually.

I noticed I feel a lot more anxious when I drink coffee. I was on a cycle of several cups a day. I stopped and in a few days anxiety was gonne. I’ve seen articles talking about that.

Could anybody plot the anxiety trend against the growth of Starbucks?

[not saying there is no such thing as job insecurity, but maybe things are potentialized]

“voluntary” lol.

I am not sure whether France has a good system or a bad system. What I was trying to say was that the reaction to these regulations does not seem optimal and that, from where I stand, the employers are basing their hiring strategy around gut feelings rather than rationality.

It also swings both ways. Despite not being a permanent employee of my indirect employers I am a permanent employee of my actual employers and therefore benefit from a lot of state protection. This has been the longest I have lasted in my career without switching jobs and this is almost certainly because it feels like quitting my job is more of a risk now. Aggressively switching jobs may well be the optimal strategy for employees of my experience to maximize their salary but I notice that this happens far less in France than in Ireland, where I moved from.

how do all these innocent parties get tricked out of their money by these nefarious devils?

“tricked” … now that’s the most blatant strawman I’ve seen for a while. No-one but you said, or implied, “tricked”.

But regardless… people deal with “these nefarious devils”, well, because the only alternative is to run the risk of having to choose between either:

(1) letting yourself die; or
(2) selling everything you own and going into crushing debt to pay for treatment yourself.

They’re trying to choose whichever fucking provides the most lube.

do stock holders/business owners buy insurance? do they buy it from [...] non-profit insurance companies?

Clearly, you intend these questions to be rhetorical, with the answers “yes; no”, but: the sufficiently wealthy can afford to just buy their healthcare directly, and not bother with health insurance at all; and the medium-wealthy can afford to move somewhere with nationalised healthcare, which is pretty much analogous to “non-profit insurance companies”. So you’re basically wrong on both counts.

Also, you seem to think snark and sarcasm makes you look witty. I’m afraid that only works if you’re vaguely correct. As is, it just makes you look like a condescending, arrogant asshole who’s too far up himself to have any hope of ever realising how wrong he is.

Me, I’ll keep my European affordable-healthcare-for-all over your extortionate-healthcare-for-the-fortunate, thanks.

right… they don’t provide a service in a voluntary exchange with a customer.

pray tell, how do all these innocent parties get tricked out of their money by these nefarious devils? since we all know how evil they are?

it’s marketing right?! maybe it’s the same marketing geniuses that let apple trick us out of all our technology money…

do stock holders/business owners buy insurance? do they buy it from the secret, members-only, non-profit insurance companies?