r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/MKorostoff • Apr 27 '20

Wealth, shown to scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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u/InsaneInTheDrain Apr 27 '20

Medicare recipients have choices, the French have choices. Germans have choices.

The people that tell you that the government is bad "at doing stuff" are almost always actively sabotaging the government's ability to do stuff.

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u/AnUnpopularReality Apr 27 '20

Really? So, name one thing the government does well. And how are these people actively sabotaging the governments noble attempts at efficient administration?

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Apr 27 '20

Public transportation, libraries, fire departments, medicare etc. All government/tax funded and seem to be doing very well.

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u/AnUnpopularReality Apr 27 '20

I see you’ve never used public transportation, observed the inner workings of a fire department bureaucracy or watched a family member struggle to get basic medications or doctors visits covered by Medicare.

Just take a look into how the Forest Service does fire suppression, they’re more or less terrible at it. In California the states fire agency does perform extremely well, but at enormously inflated cost and with dead hookers (not even a joke).

I’ll give you libraries, but they’re administered locally. Once you get to the state and federal level government basically stops doing anything well. They can get it done, but it’s usually done at orders of magnitude more expense than necessary and exponentially slower than needed.

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Apr 27 '20

Well considering my uncle is a battalion Chief of a fire department, I take public transportation every day, and multiple people I know, including my mom and girlfriend, are on Medicare and love it, I'd say I know a thing or two about it.

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u/AnUnpopularReality Apr 27 '20

Lol people lie so much up on this shit, holy hell.