A problem with socialized medical care is that the old are incentivized to use the most expensive care possible, even if the gain in years of life is minimal--it’s not their heirs who are paying.
Yusuke Narita in the NY Times
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Asian people show how immoral they are. First Japan attacked the US in the 1940s, now China is attacking American freedom. Waiting one more day before turning China into glass is a crime God will punish.
We should be open to good ideas from anywhere, like this one from Japan.
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Autistic Thrasymachus is lit. Come @ us, Socrates:
“Maybe old people shouldn’t all commit seppuku, but we need to think creatively about how they can have dignity in a world where many are only burdens. With technological change becoming more rapid, they no longer even have wisdom to offer young generations. Need new solutions.
The idea that they should sacrifice *something* for young people isn’t even being seriously considered. If nothing else gov shouldn’t keep spending all its money on them and giving them advantages in the job market through civil rights law. See also covid.
You see this also in the ridiculous debate over Canadian euthanasia. Even those that don’t want to be burdens, many people feel like we should keep forcing it on them. Like we’re only comfortable in a social order where the young are burdened for the sake of the old.“
https://twitter.com/richardhanania/status/1624887133520695296I agree with Hanania on a lot of things but China isn't being a gerontocracy with Zero COVID lockdown. A lot of people (ethnic minorities, elderly etc) died from starvation and fires during the forced lockdown in China. China does not give a flying F about its elderly. The reason for the Zero COVID lockdown was a sheer useless show of pride to boast to the West that the fatality rate in China was much lower than the West. It doesn't have anything to do with protecting the elderly.
The only way that China is similar to a gerontocracy is that it's a dictatorship ruled by a panel of old Han men, with another old Han man at the top.
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Asian people show how immoral they are. First Japan attacked the US in the 1940s, now China is attacking American freedom. Waiting one more day before turning China into glass is a crime God will punish.
Not Asian only Japan.
I am Indonesian, an Asian.
I recalled that my grandparents told how Japan invaded Indonesia between 1942-1945.
We are victims
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Weren’t you colonized by another country before Japan? They saved you!
Asian people show how immoral they are. First Japan attacked the US in the 1940s, now China is attacking American freedom. Waiting one more day before turning China into glass is a crime God will punish.
Not Asian only Japan.
I am Indonesian, an Asian.
I recalled that my grandparents told how Japan invaded Indonesia between 1942-1945.
We are victims -
Weren’t you colonized by another country before Japan? They saved you!
Asian people show how immoral they are. First Japan attacked the US in the 1940s, now China is attacking American freedom. Waiting one more day before turning China into glass is a crime God will punish.
Not Asian only Japan.
I am Indonesian, an Asian.
I recalled that my grandparents told how Japan invaded Indonesia between 1942-1945.
We are victims
Dutch saved Indonesia