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@asadabukhalil It also proves, as many have have pointed out, that the US had the power to stop Zionist aggression anytime they wanted, against Palestinians, against Lebanon, against Iran and others, but chose not to.

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@globeandmail I don’t understand the rationale here. If the issue with a public system is that hospitals have finite resources and can’t accrue debt, why not change that instead of introducing privatization? It’s also not obvious why privatization here would look like Germany and not the US.

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@unusual_whales It’s so wild for the US to admit defeat, sign the MOU signalling that they were defeated, and then turn around and scuttle the talks when they have absolutely no cards to play. Just the most chaotic shit ever.

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@jacobin Reducing the cost of the reproduction of labour (this is the most obvious way to increase productivity anyway) and reducing the cost of education and training. If none of this happens simultaneous with decreasing work hours, at least in healthcare, we’re cooked.

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@jacobin What has to happen concurrently, is a strategy for retention (so when we spend resources training people, they stay, and pass their skills on), a reorganizing of the cultural incentive structure for certain jobs (why work in healthcare when you can do a desk job for the same?)…

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@Jackkk It’s not that money doesn’t make you happy (whatever that means), it’s that what you, Will, use it for doesn’t make you happy. It’s no surprise that an indoor swimming pool isn’t life affirming. But, money does give normal people the time and security to make themselves happy.

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@SwampCommunist You’d need to be able to educate and put surgeons into the workforce much faster than we currently do, and you’d then need a reserve of unemployed surgeons to push down wages etc. I don’t see this happening, at least in Canada, although maybe I’m wrong.

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@SwampCommunist But an outstanding question is whether surgeons can be proletarianized through the industrialization of surgery. It’s not unthinkable, I know there are surgeons in the field looking to do this with transplants, but it doesn’t appear like the tech is there yet.

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@tylerblack32 So the real question should be, ok, if we reject the serotonin hypothesis, what accounts for the efficacy of SSRIs? But Moncrieff’s response is, well there’s no “chemical imbalance” so therefore all psychiatric drugs are bunk. Just logically incoherent.

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@tylerblack32 Moreover, the purpose of science, in this case through medical trials, is twofold: to test a hypothesis, say the serotonin hypothesis, but also to find empirical phenomena that we can then try to explain through our best understanding of the human body.

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@Perrincapybara If we had organized revolutionary parties, we would be supporting the efforts of salters so that these jobs weren’t their only means of survival.

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@Perrincapybara That’s not what’s being said here. They’re saying that what we need are revolutionaries within the working class at the point of production to help organize rank and file workers. We call this “salting” and it’s a tried and true organizing technique.