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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

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Home Beautiful Week “Mickey Mouse” (1982)

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contrasting

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Author: Kevin Carson Topics: health care, left-libertarianism

Mutualist, at the livejournal blog of the same name, writes on “Building Consensus with Egalitarian Liberals in Healthcare Reform.”

His argument is that libertarians and egalitarian liberals are likely to disagree on demand-side issues like single-payer insurance vs. medical savings accounts, because they’re so closely tied up with differences in purchasing power. But liberals are more likely to be sympathetic to proposals to open up the supply of healthcare to competition. Breaking the power of the license cartels and the patent system, and eliminating barriers to a fully functioning market (i.e., permitting price competition through advertising) would drastically reduce the price of healthcare and greatly empower the consumer.

And, I’d add, if we did that, discussion of demand-side reforms might be a lot more politically feasible.

Liberal welfare-statism is a pretty natural--if misguided--reaction to a society in which the state, through privilege, creates great disparities in income. Privilege creates massive distortions, made cumulative through the process of feedback, that must be dealt with somehow. One way of dealing with the consequences is through a Rube Goldberg device like redistributive welfare policy, another layer of policy to counteract the first layer, to prevent underconsumption from becoming too destabilizing and the underclass from becoming too radicalized. The other way is to eliminate the privilege itself--a lot simpler.

But make no mistake. If the privilege remains, statist “corrective” action will be the inevitable result. That’s why I don’t get too bent out of shape about the statism of the minimum wage or overtime laws--in my list of statist evils, the guys who are breaking legs rank considerably higher than the ones handing out government crutches. All too many libertarians could care less about the statism that causes the problems of income disparity, but go ballistic over the statism intended to alleviate it. It’s another example of the general rule that statism that helps the rich is kinda sorta bad, maybe, I guess, but statism that helps the poor is flaming red ruin on wheels.

Libertarians need to stop admiring the emperor’s clothes and pretending that disparities in income reflect the triumph of industrious ants over lazy grasshoppers. Liberals might be a lot easier to talk to then. That Galt’s Gulch bullshit can be kind of hard to listen to sometimes.

I’ve argued elsewhere myself, by the way, that we need to go beyond cooperative solutions to healthcare finance, and get into cooperatively organizing delivery of service, as well.

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Ada Limón on Grief

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today carson and greta are having to really hold themselves back from storming amazon prime

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Day ??: god I’m so obsessed with the walking dead and this pic of Jeffery Dean Morgan with the Rick print out reminded me of Goddard cuz his obsession with wanting to take down Scythe Lucifer 🫶

Characters: Overblade Goddard, Rowan Damisch — Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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October daily art challenge, Day #26: Carson "Chuckster" Kemper

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I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us?

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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Thinking about TRL in 1998-2001 and how part of what fueled that show was that you literally couldn’t stream music videos you wanted on demand back then. That just didn’t exist. You voted for your favorite music video that you thought had a decent chance at being in the top 10 just to SEE it again.

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succumbing to the illness. becoming a hater. anyway look at this building they’re fucking destroying

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oh no I think I have to give them names because there are more than one or two

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