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Re: Covfefe-19 - Part 4- Stay the **** Home
This is the inescapable logic of our cultural justifications for the profit motive. We've been told it's the most efficient method of distributing goods, allocating investment, and spurring innovation. If that is true then we should use it for everything because in the long run we will all be better off.
Now, of course, it isn't true. We know that with a few things: we have a military and police forces, not competing mercenaries. We don't make people pay for their air (yet). But if the rationale breaks down for life and death matters then there are many other areas it also has to break down: health care, child care, housing, food. But the profit motive has been deified in the US so people hold their neighbors' health and life hostage to personal profit.
It's funny that conservative religious ideology and conservative economic ideology are exactly contradictory. Perhaps the pervasive mental illness of conservatives comes from that: like HAL, they have been given two directives that conflict and it has driven them insane.
This is the inescapable logic of our cultural justifications for the profit motive. We've been told it's the most efficient method of distributing goods, allocating investment, and spurring innovation. If that is true then we should use it for everything because in the long run we will all be better off.
Now, of course, it isn't true. We know that with a few things: we have a military and police forces, not competing mercenaries. We don't make people pay for their air (yet). But if the rationale breaks down for life and death matters then there are many other areas it also has to break down: health care, child care, housing, food. But the profit motive has been deified in the US so people hold their neighbors' health and life hostage to personal profit.
It's funny that conservative religious ideology and conservative economic ideology are exactly contradictory. Perhaps the pervasive mental illness of conservatives comes from that: like HAL, they have been given two directives that conflict and it has driven them insane.
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