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Yep, echo for sure the most likely
Prohibitions create black markets. Black markets reduce the marginal cost of violence. Politicians don't care about this even those that understand it though. Their livelihoods do not encourage problem solving.
The unsolvable problem is the best problem for politicians. They can always be "trying" to fix it and run on "what they are doing".
The second best problem for politicians are the problems that are trending to resolution due to outside forces like technology, culture, or economics. Things like child labor laws are a good example. Wealth and opportunity end child labor. Now we just make it harder for young people to get work experience.
They created an economy for the very thing they claimed to be fighting 😂
The drug war cough
Prohibition cough
I'm trying to be pedantic but this is such a common confusion that I try to address it when I see it.
- Country is the land
- Nation is the people
- State is the government
Agree with @k00b education is the biggest factor outside of culture. This is why the state will never let go of schooling and want so much control over children. They need to get them early to make them good little citizens. Government schools train us how to think. Education is actual learning. Training is creating a response to certain stimuli.
Here's an example. If you are taking a gun training course you will be instructed to practice. The reason is so that when you need to respond you will not have to think. You will just act. Thinking might cost your life. If you have to think about drawing and aiming your weapon you might be dead.
But, education will teach you how to read a scenario and determine the risk in the moment. So a well rounded human should be educated with knowledge as well as trained to respond.
The government school system trains children to be compliant to authority figures. It trains you that democracy is good and everyone needs to vote. You are not invited to think critically or question the things you are told.
But you are right. It is the people. If you have a well educated and moral populace you will have a strong nation. Today in the US we have low information populace that is trained to follow influencers.
But, the bright side is that it has never been easier to educate yourself, to find answers, to read multiple views on history, and to train one's self to respond in the ways you want to respond.
What is most funny to me is that they think Trump will care about this! Believe me, even though the movie industry has a ton of jobs and is a massive industry Trump is petty enough to not care because of how Hollywood has treated him.
Yeah, this is a point I make with people that are more moderate and dislike Trump. But I compare Trump to the weak Republicans like Bush, McCain, and McConnell.
The supposed association of high LDL with heart disease is the reason so many statins (a very high profit drug for big pharma) are prescribed. Statins have horrible side effects and do not work overall for reducing deaths from heart disease.
I remember the first time I heard of the Ketogenic diet many years ago and this question was a big one. Dude that was trying it out tested his blood and cholesterol and found the same thing. It seem entirely possible that the high LDL might not be the direct reason for heart disease but rather a commonality in those with the disease.
I think I misread your comment the first time I read it. I don't think I've heard a "we need to suffer some pain" narrative, or if I have it was so dumb I forgot it.
the people really being ripped off are all the regular peaceful people being expropriated by the state (doesn't matter which nation's)
Yes, and my point is that people outside the US are getting it worse than we are due to the dollar and the Fed. I just get sick of hearing Americans complain when we are the empire with the most wealth. I mean, we should complain about the state but we do have it far better than most of the world.
It's all just one big blob
This in my opinion is the dominate view even within republican voters.
Country, Nation, and government (state) are all used interchangeably.
What I was getting at was entitlement and laziness. It is far more common than many would like to admit.
Honestly, I don't know. I can tell you the government didn't do nothing. There were programs that paid for college education if you lost your job due to off-shoring. I used one to pay for 2 years of community college. I was one of a few that actually used it. Most of the people I knew in the factory had zero interest in a career shift. A few did though. Some were even older dudes.
Most of the people I worked with just found jobs in other factories or other blue collar jobs. Some took early retirement. Its not like the area I was in was booming and then cratered though. Its not like the rust belt in that way.
I hated working in a factory anyway so I was looking for a way out anyway. It was just a job that put food on the table while I figured out life. It was dirty hard work. I don't miss it but for many it was all they knew.
IMO the US shot itself in the foot with over-regulation, over-taxation, and fiat money printing. It wasn't just "free-trade" with China that did this. Of course the cost difference in labor was a massive factor and maybe even the biggest factor, it wasn't the only one.
When it was announced I was working in the QA area and heard the old times inspecting the product coming from the Chinese factory and it was better quality and much lower in cost to produce. Those guys didn't say this stuff very loudly. I remember hearing guys complain about the outsourcing but also being very pro-union. It was a union shop and I think unions played a role as well.
What Americans do not want to admit is that many of us simply are not as hungry and willing to work as those from poverty. Of course there are plenty of Americans that would out work anyone but I can tell you in my time in the factories (worked at several) there were plenty of deadbeats that milked the union job dry. Many of these guys railed about their jobs being stolen by foreigners and after a while it just go so old to me.
Today I see this in tech/IT with foreign workers being more hungry. But I also see it in guys that come from blue collar backgrounds switching to coding. They will often out work the tech bros.