deregulateMed

Stop calling it a "walled garden".

It's a "walled prison".

Do what we did to fight tabacco addiction?

Combination of support and shaming?

Are you implying the heavily marketed alternative works better?

Haha I missed more streets with their map program, their music store is more complicated, and their podcast app is more buggy.

It's marketing.

Laziness

Engineers aren't unionized. Physicians on the other hand are unionized in all but name.

We knocked down a 1930s depression house to put up a half million dollar home. My property tax is 5x my neighbors.

Who's complaining? My neighbors who have fantastic schools and pay trivial taxes?

Swap all that with "big marketing budget"

You can see how easy politicians can conquer minds, it's no surprise trillion dollar companies are able to sell anti consumer products at luxury pricing.

"convenience" is just marketing.

I do my part by using FOSS. My only sin is using Windows at work because it's what the Engineers use.

My cellphone OS and web browser are FOSS.

My personal and side project server is FOSS.

I even used GIMP for 10+ years before finally giving adobe 10$ so I could knock out a flyer real quick.

I think we all know who the devil in the room is. FOSS fans know who the sinners are.

I agree, but by October they were everywhere.

I don't see how medicine can cost less when the supply hasn't changed.

Patents are the same. Residencies are the same. Hospitals are the same.

Do you think the physician cartel is going to stop living in Mansions?

Walmart seems fantastic for customers, bad for employees and bad for suppliers.

I wonder if every company was like this, what would happen to the world.

Yep. My cart looks different than most people's at Walmart. Fresh food, nothing frozen outside occasional vegetables.

You can be a picture of health shopping at Walmart, just as you can be a danger to yourself shopping at whole foods.

Who pays the bills is not the problem in healthcare, it's a supply issue.

The various medical cartels have lobbied to artificially decrease the supply of competitors, workers, and companies in the healthcare industry.

Single payer healthcare doesn't magically create more physicians, hospitals, or drug companies.

Given the medical industry is more than okay with going Full Evil, I'm happy to see Walmart knocking them down a notch in evil.

If nothing else, this may cause something foreign to the medical industry- Competition.

I trust Walmart as a customer significantly more than the healthcare cartels.

Benevolent? It's not exactly hard to be more benevolent than the medical establishment.

N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster.

What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.

I was hoping for some old guard bill Clinton style, not Ron Paul.

I have an addictive personality so I gave it up completely.

It only sucked on a Friday evening for like 1 hour. weird because I would game every night.

And did the company invoke it?

What makes you think I'm talking about the scraps?

I'm something between fiscal conservative, neoliberal, libertarian, and moderate. Labels are bad imo.

We are talking about people who's company actually used the non compete.

These are not typical people.

I wonder if those supposedly secure Linux distros are actually secure.

Anything from MS, Google, and Apple cannot be trusted.

Start a new career, start an unrelated company, do non profit work, do research, etc...

I imagine these people have money, so what's making potentially an extra 200k? You make that in a year.

Simple solution for me was to do a dopamine detox. This requires getting rid of things you enjoy, but that's somewhat the point. Instead of doing things you want, you are wasting time on things you don't.

After giving up video games, programming was fun. Reading nonfiction was insanely fun. So much so, it became a new addiction.

Maybe giving up things you enjoy is easier said than done.

I'm so horribly disappointed in Biden. He ran a campaign pretending to be moderate, but cannot stop spending money.

Doesn't seem to matter which party you choose, both are pro war and pro big government corruption/cronyism.

At best I'll vote against the incumbent, at worst I'll vote third party.

The plight of being a 10%er is that you don't have voting power or money.

So it's an Android with pre installed apps.

Android is pretty cool. I wonder if history was different and M$ replaced Google for phones, if we'd have 2 walled prisons.

"but Tesla gave away their patents to help humanity."

I remember that marketing trick.

"Change the world"

I remember that one too.

Now I'm a skeptic. I just can't get excited about Tesla claims anymore. My brain has developed defensive mechanisms against their propaganda/PR machine.

I think less than 1% of people make minimum wage.

I wonder who takes minimum wage jobs, even in 2016. There were plenty of 10$/hr jobs. You'd almost have to look for them.

Ancedote, I didn't feel addicted to a drug. I would go a day or few without having it.

This was until someone claimed I was addicted. As soon as I heard that, I did research to learn if I was actually addicted to the drug. Like a switch, I stopped having multi day breaks. Multi day breaks wasn't what addicts do.

I'm off everything now, but I do wonder if simply learning about addiction triggered my brain to have the suggested symptoms.

I would love a science based alternative to our current Authority based healthcare system. Cheaper, potentially better outcomes, less errors.

That said, the physician cartel would never let it happen.