Don't mind the downvotes on this community xD.

Spot on regarding Medicare. Chasing revenue while ignoring the cost disease in healthcare and infrastructure is useless. If we don't address the supply-side restrictions and artificial monopolies driving up those costs, no amount of taxing the rich will ever be enough to keep pace with the spending curve.

Most people want to solve the problem without solving the actual root problem. That'll only be a cat and mouse game with no ends.

Gonna to teach my kid to say doas instead.

Idk 😂

Personally, I think the scoring system itself is fine. It only becomes an issue when the ecosystem turns into an echo chamber where people blindly downvote opposing arguments without providing a reason.

Most clients will hide down voted posts or comments if they reach certain number, CMIIW. I don't really care about the down vote counts but when people just blindly down vote without any reason, I can assume people that downvoted me here are not really that open to discussions and only want to hear what they wanted to hear and shows a lack of understanding.

It's acceptable and understandable for me since this is Fediverse where most people are left-leaning and I was a heavy leftist until I deep dived economics and how the left economic system is unrealistic in my personal view.

I posted something on !libertarianism@lemmy.world and got downvoted by many whilst I always upvote my opposition so the discussion doesn't get buried. Lmao.

What about we have more people like you, like me, like us that get away from big shitty corpo like Reddit and move to Fedi in mass? That's how a real free market works: if you don't like it, you leave/boycott.

The same principle applies to any aspect of society based on the market. The real 'ambition of the powerful' is usually fueled by State granted monopolies and regulatory capture where big corps use the law to kill small competitors.

Limiting their power shouldn't mean giving the State more control (which they eventually buy anyway), but rather decentralizing our choices. If we have the freedom to exit and build alternatives, their 'power' evaporates because it lacks our voluntary consent.

I think we're just starting from fundamentally different axioms. I lean toward a KISS approach to economics, whereas you're prioritizing state-managed velocity. We'll have to agree to disagree.

That's exactly what I find so unfortunate. Most people assume 'free markets' automatically mean the system we have now: crony capitalism. It seems like people here have a deep-seated hatred for free markets, but just to be clear, saying this doesn't make me an AnCap.

I agree we aren't starting on day 1. The current wealth of billionaires is the result of State enforced monopolies on land, credit, and intellectual property.

It's already planned by the 1% of the 1%