Two major differences between Amazon and eBay eBay has longer shipping times but a significantly better rating system which holds the buyer accountable as much as it does the seller.
But since I like and enjoy instant gratification Amazon's faster shipping times are a little better for me especially as a consumer rather than seller.
I pray to God and the baby Jesus that I don't believe in that he will be stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions on policy.
Or any decisions. At all... Even outside the office. Him mom should lay out his clothing for the day so he doesn't have to decide anything.
Honestly, the chain-reaction idea just doesn’t hold up. A healthcare agency, even a universal one, isn’t a command hub for the rest of the economy. Its authority ends at healthcare. Funding something doesn’t mean owning it, and there’s no mechanism that lets a medical bureaucracy suddenly branch out into housing, farming, manufacturing, or anything else.
If the state wanted to own those sectors, it would have to pass explicit nationalization laws. That requires political will, not some automatic drift caused by covering everyone’s doctor visits. We’ve had universal care in plenty of countries for decades, and none of them spontaneously rolled into full state socialism because the health service existed.
And the “unlimited funding” premise doesn’t map to how governments work. Budgets are capped, audited, and fought over. You can’t build a whole-economic takeover on a resource stream that doesn’t actually exist.
So the short version: universal healthcare doesn’t function as a nucleus for socialism. It’s a public service. To move beyond that, you need intentional, large scale political action not administrative gravity.
Actually, the math you’re quoting is a bit misleading. Cratchit did earn 15 shillings a week, but converting that to modern U.S. dollars isn’t straightforward. Simple inflation calculations like “$530/week → $13.50/hr” ignore things like typical work hours in Victorian England (often far longer than 40/week) and changes in living standards. Some estimates put his pay closer to $21/hr if you assume a 40‑hour week, but realistically, accounting for actual hours worked, his effective hourly rate might be much lower. So comparing it directly to modern minimum wage isn’t really accurate.
While I agree that ads are often necessary, I disagree with the predatory way they are presented. Google, and by extension YouTube, are the most egregious examples.
But there is no moral obligation to either engage with ads or avoid them. That notion is nonsensical
Aye. The seas are calling.