Can you afford it? — Janus

More like, do I have the balls to do it? Heh.

Jamaica?

We are animals, Shawn. — Janus

That doesn't make us condemned or dammed into some self created place of suffering. You don't like Coronovirus? I say move to some Island State, like Bermuda.

Not really. We can learn from past mistakes. And, Coronovirus ain't the Spanish flu or the plague.

You'd think we'd get over our animalistic tendencies, ya?

Why is it taking so long?

Yes, it is wrong. I stand corrected, people still die from this disease...

Yet, the point still remains, is the market reaction rational or irrational? I stand by the latter.

Not to come off as a totally psychopathic dick asshole, but millions of people will simply not die from Coronovirus. I believe the death toll is 3.5k, and as far as I know, new cases aren't dying from it anymore.

I wish I could say the same. But, all I'm saying is that the fear and paranoia are unjustified...

Stop scaring the children.

It's all been self inflicted my man. But, I'm playing it safe from now on.

I don't want anyone to take responsibility over a nutcase anymore. One visit in a psych ward in a shitty neighborhood was more than enough to break me down and make me go loony.

*slowly heals*

You don't need to eliminate the cold to reduce the lethality of Coronovirus, do you?

And, here's a tip... Take a vacation after the dust settles to some Indonesian Havana...

It's real insanity how a price war compounded by some really fucking irrational fear caused some hundreds of billions in losses for the whole world.

*Scratches head.*

And, what about lazy questions are so bad?

You mods need to loosen up or something before Michael goes bonkers again...

So which is it, save lives, or save economies? — Punshhh

Both quite obviously. Since the economy entails pretty much every event that happens, then the imperative is to save lives.

And, it's not like every country in the world is not working on a vaccine. Ya?

I think the point seems to be more like, what's wrong with asking a lazy question if nobody is omniscient?

Q~uestion->Posty McPostface->Wallows... And, finally my first real name, Shawn.

Sorry for the confusion...

Wait, who is he? — DingoJones

A pig.

What's a lazy question since it got brought up?

Sorry that I'm not sorry?

You got that, Shawn? — ssu

What's wrong with fairness all of a sudden?

Now you've lost me. Central management is a way to coordinate a large network where people simply cannot all come to sit down on a table and have a coffee and decide what everybody is going to do. Large cooperatives also have central management, so what is your point? — ssu

I'm just pointing out the similarities between how central management is handled within a company or regulation imposes it to be handled in a certain way.

What's wrong with letting the shareholders with the largest stake to deal with profits and maintaining their positions from making decisions from within the company?

At no point does the government have to intervene or make decisions for individuals from within the company...

The market reaction to this disease is disproportionate...

Speak for yourself, white, aimless wanderer?

Yeah, I will memorize that.

Please read the agenda. Who else will look that the goals are met than the central government? — ssu

So, the alternative is to stick with the fascist structure of central management imposed by the chiefs, CEO, COO, etc.?

Just let me point out that if there's nothing wrong with stupid questions, then I don't think there should be anything wrong with a lazy one???

Maybe they make better sense in Swahili, doubtless nothing can be learned from it since we're all Anglo-Saxons hereabouts.

You can't be serious, can you?

The idea is self governing, not central management imposed and kept in check by apparatchiks within the workforce...

"Wrong questions..."

That's rich!

Incoherent babble. According to you nothing can get sorted out even if the carrot is right in front of you.

Not my problem. I didn't speak in Swahili as far as I'm concerned.

What's the issue here?

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong in asking the wrong questions. After all if nothing stupid was asked, then nothing brilliant would be discovered, or no?

I wonder if you see a certain safety in asking a question? — unenlightened

Certainly not. Everyone loves certainty and the devil is associated with the question asking as far as I know...

I will venture to suggest that not only can a question be wrong, but that a large part of philosophy (but not all) is a matter of showing just how wrong some questions are. — unenlightened

Good old Wittgenstein comes along and upends the entire field of philosophy by asking obscure and incomprehensible questions. Or in other words, there doesn't seem to be some hard limit imposed on the field of philosophy in regards to question asking of a nonsensical order, or not?

I hear some incredible 2-5 people are employed at the SEC... I hope someone changes that... Ehem.

Nothing about this is new. Chomsky should come to mind with regards to all this fuckery going on in America.

Yes, the situation is quite tragic. But, let's not get depressed and apathetic or cynical. Ya?

The American system provides very high quality care to a lot of people. Some people are unfairly under-served. The question is how to deal with the bottom 25%, not blow up the system that's working for the 75%. — fishfry

Your joshing, yes?

Let's forget about the 25 percent and enjoy the fact that 75 percent were happy. Btw, another 25 percent of the 75 percent were on the verge of losing healthcare...

I want my cake and eat it too!

I'm unsure where your getting the idea that Bernie is setting up companies to failure due to red tape???

Can you actually support this with some evidence?

Universal healthcare is cheaper than what we got already. So, he's actually simplifying things there. Education should be free, I think? The benefits are found in higher employment and efficiency or productivity. Human capital stands above the debt imposed on the government, yes?

Tax laws will be simplified and loopholes closed.

I mean, if your going to attack his program then at least address the policies and logic and not some pejorative term such as woo-me "socialism".

Do your own research. — fishfry

The burden is on you to support your sentiments about Obamacare and it's deleterious effects on the middle class, or not?

The rollout of Obamacare was a disaster of epic proportions. It utterly failed to bring down costs and sent premiums skyrocketing for self-employed people and small business owners. — fishfry

Do you have evidence to support this?

I see.

For the matter I am furious over the lack of coverage on pretty much every major news outlet over the astonishing success of Bernie's campaign.