swansont

When you registered your account you agreed to follow the rules of this site. You replied to a post in speculations but it was a new take, meaning you hijacked the thread. That’s against the rules. Preaching is also against the rules. “Scientist have zero for sure proof ANYWHERE about ANYTHING” tells us you don’t really have a grasp of science and are posting in bad faith (another violation) Further, the first rule of the speculations section is “Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. If you expect any scientific input, you need to provide a case that science can measure” which is why you were admonished for not using science references, and why the post was put into the trash - we told you that would happen, if you had bothered to check. If you’re referring to your right under the first amendment of the US Constitution, you still haven’t. That means the government can’t silence you. We’re not the government and can moderate as we wish. Your speech wasn’t erased, but it was moved, because this site has rules, you broke several of them, and that’s what happens. If you complain about this elsewhere, make sure you point out that you broke the rules. You wouldn’t want to bear false witness. Oh, and “The Bible is recanted live stories” probably isn’t what you meant to say. But it’s a funny typo.

Sure. But the issue was “wealth inequity” - which I took as the difference between the very rich and the very poor. And there are hundreds of millions of very poor. Are people, on average, better off? Sure! But the very poor aren’t, and the rich definitely are. The inequity is greater. And that’s really a tragedy of modern times.

I don’t see that there has been a serious job offer for that position, so it’s largely moot, but I don’t know how much time it takes to say “Let’s go to Mars!” every now and then. It’s not clear that he’s all that involved with daily operations of any of his companies.

That he’s a tad better than a coin flip is hardly a ringing endorsement. A coin flip gets you 6 correct out of 12, and all you need are three elections where the winner is pretty obvious where there’s no real guesswork (Reagan beating Carter, Bush beating Dukakis are two candidates)

Which means the disparity comparison should not be using the poor in an industrialized nation as the baseline, since there are a billion people elsewhere who are worse off.

What does being speaker have to with going to Mars?

We’ve been over why this is a bad idea, but beyond that, I don’t see how it solves your conundrum. Surely a referendum can be both good and bad? We have referendums in the US, and it’s not like they universally get huge landslide victories. There’s always something bad about them, in the view of some of the people.

Not sure. I’ve read things that show the NHS in the UK employs doctors. Canada, as I recall, is a single-payer system. The advantage of medicare is that it strips out the middleman (for-profit insurance) that only seems to add cost and deny service when it threatens profits.

That’s the payment vehicle - single payer insurance - not the healthcare itself. It’s not doctors and nurses on the state payroll, providing the services.

That has some physical significance, as it’s the most probable distance an electron would be from the proton in the S state of hydrogen. It gives you the scale of the size of the hydrogen atom. The classical electron radius doesn’t have an analogous role. By not saying much of anything other than citing the number, you didn’t do much to dissuade this notion.

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In industrialized countries, perhaps. There are a lot of people who don’t have access to clean water or safe food, or decent medical care, or even electricity.

Musk vs Bezos inequality misses the point. A rich king sitting on a pile of gold and jewels in olden times had the same issue of having money that would never be spent. That’s the case with inherited wealth. It’s why their heirs were also rich. So do the very rich.

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! Moderator Note What is it you want to discuss? Your rambling does not make it clear.