[brooklyntribe]

The mile high view of USA health care is if we can "eliminate" the poor, the old, the sick, in the long run, it will make our economy stronger. It seems to be doing it's thing.

The life expectancy is coming down for the first time in decades and the stock market is at a record high. It's a "social darwinism" thing. We're a living lab to test the theory out.

That's the mile high view. I'm not sure what the long term consequences are.

> US life expectancy drops for first time in 22 years

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/us-life-expectancy-down...

[Asooka]

And then you all die from an infected telephone booth because all the phone sanitizers have died out.

Joke aside, you still need people in what are now shitty low-paying jobs for a functioning society. So if you're not going to pay the janitor enough for a middle-class life, either make a robot to do his job, or die of dysentery. Do you think USA will be able to make enough robots fast enough to realise that? And will USA society be able to tolerate everyone being upper-middle-class?