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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is so great we privatized taxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I basically agree. Those are actually insurance, and serve a purpose. Health “Insurance” isn’t insurance at all really…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is so great we privatized taxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is so great we privatized taxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean specifically health insurance… yeah this is spot on.

  I think it’s more complicated for other kinds of insurance though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m just missing some crucial info, but an amusement park seems like a fundamentally different thing than software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel manipulated? By whom (or by what)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you put maliciousness in quotes?

  Kids absolutely can be malicious. Sure, it’s a small scale but kids can absolutely manipulate. Asking for an apple , if they really just want an apple, is not manipulation because it’s not malicious. Little Susie telling her sister Jess to give her her soda or shell tell their parents about how the window broke is 100% manipulative though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel manipulated? By whom (or by what)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  By my ex wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel manipulated? By whom (or by what)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but usually the term manipulation has a negative connotation.

  In a sense, when my kid asks for fruit, they are manipulating me. But that’s not what anyone means. They mean a kind of devious persuasion.