RE: Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies
February 5, 2018 at 11:42 am
(February 5, 2018 at 11:26 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(February 5, 2018 at 11:14 am)alpha male Wrote: Sure. If we're talking about helping a part of the population, then children of poor parents, the elderly, and the disabled should get help.
Beyond financial criteria, I'd also say that people who take reasonable care of their health yet develop a serious problem deserve help more than people who engage in activities known to put their health at risk.
Alternatively, we could go to a single-payer system, which I've said that I don't oppose. But, Dems are no more eager to go their than Repubs. Dems just pay lip service to it. Well, some. Some don't even bother.
Well it's good to hear you would endorse a single-payer solution. I didn't think you had it in you. Kudos!
As to your study, there are a lot of things that Kahneman might not have factored in. I noticed he said "passive" leisure... that may be a key word.
When you work hard every day in a factory or warehouse setting to make a profit for someone else (which I have done), it's a lot different than having business lunches and meetings from dawn to dusk in order to make more money for yourself (which I have also done). People in executive positions are often given better vacation packages so they can go to Italy and Greece for a couple weeks and unwind. People who work "in the trenches" are often disregarded as replaceable, and aren't offered such vacation packages so that they can "recharge their batteries" so to speak.
All I'm saying is, it's not such a simple issue as "wealthier people work harder." They often are treated like more than a machine to their employers. And on a large scale, the difference in treatment begins to show.
In addition, and this is my experience only, but I think it can be fairly generalized:
As someone who works both part-time white-collar (automated testing for a bank) and casual blue-collar (cleaning schools) jobs, it's pretty obvious that cleaning is more demanding than just sitting on a chair and doing some relatively relaxing and easy stuff on the computer, and yet I get paid slightly more by the hour for the automated testing than I do for the cleaning job, and we get several breaks (totaling two hours) during the work day with the former. With cleaning, maybe 15 minutes max break (for 4-hour shift) and 30 minutes max (for 8-hour shift), if you're fast enough to finish the job on time.
Keep in mind this is Australia, so it's def worse for cleaners in US. Here, they do treat cleaners fairly well (leaves for full-time workers and all), if you know which organizations to go apply with.
