“Oh wow, you’re really bad at your job!”

It must be a lot of friends who don’t all know each-other too.

If it’s a bunch of friends on one discord server, surely it’s not too hard to get back on to that same server and say “my account was hacked”. But, if you have dozens of friends spread across many servers, you might not even remember the servers.

If the private system is allowed to exist, it will always exist. Someone will find something that isn’t done quite as efficiently as the public medical system and charge privately for doing it. Anywhere the private system exists will be better than the public system by definition. Nobody would pay to use the private system if they could get their needs met for free in the public system.

Because of that, if there is a private system, some people will use it. Those same people will vote to try to limit the taxes they pay for the public system, because they’re not using that system. People who can pay for the private system are going to be the richer people, and so their decisions about where their tax money goes has more of an impact. So, eventually, the public system starts to crumble. When that happens, more people use the private system, and the problem gets worse.

I’ve been to Mexico City. It’s absolutely huge. There are probably neighbourhoods where “nomads” are pricing out the locals, but the vast majority of the city isn’t affected. What’s driving up rents in Mexico City is that it’s Mexico City. Most of the people moving there are Mexican.

As for other tourist destinations, yes in tourist destinations there are tourists! Wow. But, there’s a lot of places in Mexico that aren’t tourist destinations, or are destinations only for Mexican tourists. There are entire cities with millions of inhabitants where you’re very unlikely to ever see an American / nomad.

So, your best friend in the world. Do you ever see him outside his corner store?

Mexico already has a constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare:

Every person has the right to health protection. The law shall determine the bases and terms to access health services and shall establish the competence of the Federation and the Local Governments in regard to sanitation according to the item XVI in Article 73 of this Constitution.

In practice, this has meant a bare minimum level of health care is theoretically available to everyone, but most working people have private insurance on top of that, or see private doctors. For the poorest people it has often been very difficult to get the care they need, even if it’s theoretically available and constitutionally guaranteed. It’s also different from American / Canadian / European hospitals in that family is expected to play a major role doing things that in richer countries are done by nurses or orderlies.

IMO, universal healthcare only really works if the middle class / upper middle class and the poor are all in the same system. If the people can pay more and get better care, they’ll do it, and the system used by the poor will be underfunded. You can’t do much about the truly rich. They’ll always just fly to other countries. If this is just filling the gaps between the various reasons people can use the state system, it’s not going to help that much, even if that kind of fix is necessary.

Mexico is hardly gentrified. There are some areas where there are a lot of immigrants, but the population is about 130 million, and less than 1% are foreign born. That’s significantly lower than both USA and Canada.

One mistake? Most people are involved in at most one airplane accident in their lives. Ford has been involved in 4 where he was the pilot and a fifth as a passenger. All 3 incidents since 2015 were his mistake. The helicopter autorotation incident may not have been.

There’s an indirect one. The 40 hour week is the result of strikes from unions that are the result of factories which are the result of the industrial revolution which also led to improvements in medicine that massively reduced child mortality.

You’re not including monthly service for your cell phone, the accessories you need to buy (including a case), the electricity to charge it, and so-on.

For the truck, you also need to include the gas, insurance and maintenance.

He who controls the force, controls the Universe, Mr. Spock. So say we all!

Apparently Unilad couldn’t even copy The Hill’s homework correctly.

Somehow they reworded “White House Correspondents’ dinner Weekend Party” as “White House Dinner Correspondents Party”.

Needs more Mar A Lago face.

And they just accepted that only a fraction of their babies would live to become infants, and only a fraction of their infants would reach adulthood.

People are not living like cavemen nowadays. They want iPhones and pickup trucks and air conditioning.

If you’re willing to spend your free time living the way a caveman did, you can probably get by working a lot fewer hours.

In dact, someone who posts about things like this on linkedin is not the kind of person who acknowledges the work that their partner does to make a day like that possible.

Animals don’t want pants. Humans want pants and netflix and adult colouring books. If humans were willing to spend 8 hours a day, every day, lounging on a rock instead, then they could get by with doing a lot less work for money.

And it’s not possible for the Lunatic to live the way they do unless the partner picks up the slack and does everything else.

animal behaviorists are finding that what they first perceived as lack of functional importance often has dazzling significance after all.

the sand scorpion seems to emerge from its burrow and just stand around waiting for a meal to happen by. But Oregon State University zoologist Philip Brownell has discovered that the scorpion has receptors on its feet that sense approaching insects from several inches away by detecting minute disturbances of the desert.

The polar bear often naps next to a seal’s breathing hole with one paw cocked for a lethal swipe. Alligators have floating slumber parties beneath heron rookeries during nesting season, waiting for hapless fledglings and jostled eggs. The female fence lizard, which is “at rest” 98 percent of the time, spends that time in the energizing sun within a tongue’s dart of smorgasbord rest stops for passing insects.

The African lion, which University of Minnesota zoologist Anne Pusey says can eat 66 pounds at a sitting and then lie around on its back for several days digesting the meal, is another strategic loafer: It does most of that lying around in the shade, near a waterhole, with one eye open to potential next meals.

So is there anything at all to animal laziness? Do wild creatures ever just plain loaf? Not, says Cornell biologist Paul Sherman, from the point of view of evolutionary biologists.

It’s not just economic systems. Every animal works under the threat of starvation.

Just watch a nature documentary. Grazing animals have to eat for hours a day just to eat enough to avoid starvation, and they have to constantly be on the lookout for predators. Predators need to take down one of those grazing animals on a regular basis or they starve.

There has never been a way of living that didn’t involve working to avoid starving. When humans developed agriculture, it finally meant that when things were going well starvation was something that might be months away instead of weeks away.

There has never been an economic system where everybody could just be creative and rest all day and not work. That may be true of some elites at the top, but it will always be a small minority of people while everyone else works.

You can always hope that that work will become more pleasant, or that there will be less of it. Work used to be sun-up to sun-down, 6 days a week. Our ancestors fought and died for laws that reduced this to only 8 hours a day and only 5 days a week. Work these days is mostly done indoors, mostly in heated or air-conditioned spaces. It doesn’t tend to maim you, or require repetitive movements that eventually cripple you.

People should definitely keep fighting for more. They should join unions so they’re not having to fight on their own. But, nobody should be deluded into think it’s abnormal to have to work to live.