02-15-2020, 07:13 AM
On the one hand, we have the County of Hawaii preparing an informative pamphlet about the Wuhan Coronavirus, in full color, for it's citizens.
On the other hand, we have private enterprise offering low cost airfare on a 20 hour flight in close quarters with 250 other people, breathing recirculated air. This greatly improves the chances, almost guarantees that the County of Hawaii pamphlets may become necessary, and not a precautionary waste of money.
I read this the other day:
Our Founding Fathers created this illusion of checks and balances to keep every facet of our government equally unaccountable. If that feels undemocratic or authoritarian to you, know that capitalism allows for private tech companies, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, to sell you the home assistants that make our surveillance state function. A socialist government would merely invade your privacy, forgoing all that juicy profit! The American free-market creates competition, and competition pushes these tax-dodging corporations to be better, so they can do worse by you, the public. And as we all know, private industry is far better at infringing upon your rights than the government.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/amer...ntry-awful
On the other hand, we have private enterprise offering low cost airfare on a 20 hour flight in close quarters with 250 other people, breathing recirculated air. This greatly improves the chances, almost guarantees that the County of Hawaii pamphlets may become necessary, and not a precautionary waste of money.
I read this the other day:
Our Founding Fathers created this illusion of checks and balances to keep every facet of our government equally unaccountable. If that feels undemocratic or authoritarian to you, know that capitalism allows for private tech companies, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, to sell you the home assistants that make our surveillance state function. A socialist government would merely invade your privacy, forgoing all that juicy profit! The American free-market creates competition, and competition pushes these tax-dodging corporations to be better, so they can do worse by you, the public. And as we all know, private industry is far better at infringing upon your rights than the government.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/amer...ntry-awful
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