"The system depends on human labor while simultaneously eradicating it."

luddites unite!

Because tribalism is the only natural law of sociology.

Capitalism gets you there communism gets you there.

Now then. Your mobile phone once cost a small fortune and did nothing but ring. Today it fits in your pocket, connects you to the world's knowledge, and costs less than a week's groceries. Your telly went from three channels and a aerial on the roof to essentially infinite entertainment for the price of a modest subscription. The pattern isn't mysterious, darlings — when technology meets competition, prices *plummet* and quality *soars*. It happens in computing, in communications, in energy, in food production. It happens everywhere human beings are free to innovate, compete, and keep the fruits of their labour. So one must ask the rather obvious question that polite society seems desperate to avoid: **why not medicine?**

The tools exist. AI diagnostics that outperform consultants. Robotic surgery with sub-millimetre precision. Gene therapies that address disease at its root. Remote surgery that could put a specialist's opinion in every village from Cornwall to the Highlands. The technology is *racing* ahead — and yet the costs climb ever upward, the waiting lists grow ever longer, and we are told this is simply the nature of healthcare. Poppycock. This is the nature of a *system that has abolished the price mechanism*. When you remove competition, when you forbid the signals that tell producers where demand is greatest and consumers where value lies, you get exactly what we have: rationing by queue rather than rationing by purse, with no mechanism whatsoever to drive efficiency.

I can already hear the chorus: "But healthcare is different! It's too important for markets!" Too *important*? I would argue it is precisely because it is important that it cannot be entrusted to the absence of competition. We don't let governments manufacture computers because computers are "too vital" — we let brilliant firms compete ferociously, and the result is a miracle in every home. The missing ingredient in modern healthcare is not compassion, nor technology, nor funding — it is the *discipline and dynamism* that only free competition provides. Remove the barriers. Let innovators in. Let patients choose. You will find, as we always have, that the free market delivers what the central plan merely promises. 💙

Like blockspace?

Just learned about this : Universal basic capital is the idea that everyone should receive a stake in society’s productive wealth—such as shares in a public investment fund or regular dividends from natural resources, public assets, or economic growth.

Unlike universal basic income, which provides cash for consumption, universal basic capital is designed to build long-term wealth for people who own little or no private assets.

just look at gaming skins. you can't help it you fucks are hard wired for this it's how you asses quickly. quickly as in slow as fuck for us.

I understand here are situations where there is only room for 1 provider of something like when the investment is huge and there isn’t enough biz for more competitors. Fair enough but if this is a fact of life is their any way best to prevent an evil monopolist that will gouge prices and offer lousy service?

some famous fails for sure but what are the success stories they dont tell us about?