friedmag

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But for the most part, patients aren't really their customers. Employers are. They may want to decrease premiums, but making changes is difficult and at most an annual event. It is very, very far from a free market in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's a non argument. The VAST majority of wealth we are talking about is in equities which absolutely have a clear price. All that other stuff is noise to confuse the point. You really think the wealthy will put all their money in art that has no intrinsic value? And wait a sec, even if they did, what did they just pay for it? That seems like a perfectly valid basis for tax.

None of these values are ever perfect. The point is, we pay a small percentage of our assets every year, but the wealthy have convinced us they couldn't possibly. Most don't even "own" anything, it's all under tax and liability protected companies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is what bothers me. We say it's impossible to do for the wealthy like this. Yet we regular folks get taxed like this every year. Property taxes. We have to pay for the illiquid shit we own, but it's impossible for the wealthy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

This is true for any real insurance, but not health insurance. Health Insurance premiums are decided by your employer, someone who has no reason to even be involved. It's entirely based on how much "benefit" they think they need to give you compared to their peers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was going to be disappointed if someone had not already made this comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I really wanted to just use the PWA, but Sync really is just so much better an experience right now. It's smooth, but it also doesn't lose my place in the feed every time I open a post. Trivial yet crucial!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's $2 here in Australia, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I do need to do more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use sway because when I came back after a long break, it seemed to be the one to go with. I kind of miss awesome, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has there been any official rationale for this? It seems like a waste. It can't be that hard to do, and while the fediverse may not be huge yet, most of its users are the type of power users it would clearly appeal to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

PS5, though I'll probably end up getting a switch still. Probably right before Nintendo unveils a new console...

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