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Prescription drugs

samedi 21 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Canada's national medical system has one big gap: on prescription drugs, it operates like the US's bad system. So the progressive party has proposed to move to a government-operated system.

This would save about 25% of the current costs, but the government would have to pay the other 75%, and that might require raising taxes.

The sycophancy of Xi

samedi 21 octobre 2017 à 02:00

President Xi is trying to turn China into a nation of fawning yes-men.

People are right to think that it may cause resistance. But when Chinese accept it, they will tend towards group-think that will lead to grave mistakes. (Under Mao, that caused a great famine.)

Tech startups

samedi 21 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The digital tech giants have so much money that they can crush even established competitors. The number of startups in digital technology is way down.

Most of the things these tech startups would make are unjust, due to nonfree user software, surveillance, or both. However, if the giants do them, they will be unjust that way too. And the increased concentration has to be an additional bad.

Freedom of speech

samedi 21 octobre 2017 à 02:00

How to teach millennials to value freedom of speech?

Right-wing DNC

samedi 21 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The Democratic National Committee is firing and demoting progressive officials, reinforcing its "centrist" right-wing slant.